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AC only better - Dark Jaguar - 20th June 2010
http://gizmodo.com/5568162/researchers-develop-incredibly-efficient-air-conditioning-tech
This is neat. This is apparently a 90% energy efficient air conditioner. This sort of thing won't much affect people further north where AC is apparently an unneeded extravagance, but down here it should really significantly lower energy consumption during the summer... spring... fall... the occasional unseasonably hot winter day... pretty much year-round. Good for the environment, good for bank accounts, it'll be a VERY slow uptake due to how expensive replacing them will likely be. Most people have the same air conditioner originally installed in their house during construction. It may be a good choice for a government incentive to upgrade (with some recycling program so they can recoup some of the losses, though local power companies will see the greatest benefits).
AC only better - Dark Jaguar - 20th June 2010
It's important to add that actually the tech isn't new, it's their attempt at actually manufacturing it.
AC only better - Weltall - 20th June 2010
This is great news.
Though, I wonder why people choose to live in these sub-tropical sun-baked hellholes in the first place.
AC only better - A Black Falcon - 20th June 2010
I've never lived somewhere with air conditioning (and I mean even a window-box one, much less central air, which private homes almost never have around here. Only big stores have central air.)... but sure, that's good news obviously. AC uses huge amounts of power, anything that can reduce that would be fantastic.
AC only better - Dark Jaguar - 20th June 2010
As much as I would have liked to be born further north, I didn't have as much choice in the matter. Circumstance dictates a lot of these things. It's not so easy to just move.
AC only better - Geno - 21st June 2010
Yeah, I was born in Alabama and I'm kind of stuck here for right now.
AC only better - Weltall - 21st June 2010
Dark Jaguar Wrote:As much as I would have liked to be born further north, I didn't have as much choice in the matter. Circumstance dictates a lot of these things. It's not so easy to just move.
Over the course of my life, I've spent an average of 2.7 years at any given fixed address.
It's easier than you think.
AC only better - Dark Jaguar - 21st June 2010
Then it begs the question as to why so very many people find themselves unable to move beyond the town they're born in. I don't think an answer of "they're just lazy" is very accurate. There's the issues of resources, skill sets, and just trying to make your life stable enough that you can move beyond register biscuit and actually do something other than exist. Those things don't mesh well with uprooting yourself every few years.
Also, no one ever tells you that the most important thing is "connections".
Besides, SOMEONE has to live here. Otherwise it'd be empty.
AC only better - Weltall - 21st June 2010
Quote:I don't think an answer of "they're just lazy" is very accurate.
Good thing I didn't offer any such answer.
I have a stable life, I just get restless staying in one place and around the same people for too long.
AC only better - Dark Jaguar - 21st June 2010
That's great. Not everyone is in such a position. Some people live basically week by week. Others have long term commitments they can't break (careers, families, mortgages). More still have all their connections in one place, and leaving will be basically wandering into the woods without anything to go on.
AC only better - Darunia - 21st June 2010
north where AC is apparently an unneeded extravagance,
It was 85 today in Massachusetts, muggy and sunny. Don't tell me my AC is an unneeded extravagance.
AC only better - Weltall - 22nd June 2010
I wish it only got as high as 85 here.
AC only better - Dark Jaguar - 23rd June 2010
No you don't. I mean 85's not that bad, but let me put it this way. With cold, you just need to bundle up. With heat, you got nothing.
AC only better - A Black Falcon - 23rd June 2010
What do you mean? I mean, that's one reason why cold weather is better...
AC only better - Dark Jaguar - 23rd June 2010
...I was responding to Weltall there. My entire statement was saying I like cold weather better than hot. I thought that was clear.
AC only better - Weltall - 23rd June 2010
That's what I was saying, too.