This seems written by billionaire propagandist sources. 90% of emissions come from 100 companies. Seems to me they like everyone else to dial down the A/C instead of stop businesses from doing their part. Will legislators tell AI companies to turn off their power consumption while their servers are in the midst of a heat dome? I doubt it. So people gotta turn off A/C so that Ai can make an image of a dog eating an ice cream cone
Now I have said this for years.
So I did the following:
1. Went off grid solar and batteries on an island using diesel generators. I didn’t want to use the power due to massive pollution the local power company was causing. They switched to NG which while not the best is an incremental improvement. They just opened a second small solar field but the solar and wind on the island could easily power everything and some batteries would make it 90-95% of the time renewable. Maybe just make some green hydrogen at the desal plant with excess solar to make up the 5-10% of the time generation is needed.
2. Got super efficient heat pumps not just for AC but also hot water.
The really good part is all of this was not that expensive and paid back quick because on an island power is 42 to 50 cents per KWH. Total even with some issues I’m about 35% paid back already. Once we have a few of the last bugs out of the system should pay off in another 2-3 years. Its a unique case due to the location.
So while AC is not the best I saved money and minimized the damage.
My hope is the island will more quickly move to wind/solar and batteries. But local corruption has slowed the process.
Is the problem air conditioning, or is the problem that the electricity used for air conditioning is not sustainability generated? You can make the same argument for electric cars. All we are doing is shifting blame and kicking the can down the road. The root of the problem is and always has been with the fossil fuel industry.
Sure, frankly western standards of living are totally ecologically unsustainable, but as to AC, parts of the world are unlivable without it and those parts of the world are growing dramatically as the climate crisis deepens.
My house: between 76-80F depending on humidity.
Every office I’ve ever worked in: 69F
Once again, blaming the average person propaganda crap.
They can subsidize building a thick insulative layer around our homes.
This is very sensationalist reporting. What with the fonts, the dramatic writing, and th3 lack of detail and numbers. Last I checked the numbers AC was bad, but not nearly as bad as I once thought. At least it has sources, but no citations nor links.
More putting the blame on individual consumers when it’s a handful of huge corporations that are the problem.
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This seems written by billionaire propagandist sources. 90% of emissions come from 100 companies. Seems to me they like everyone else to dial down the A/C instead of stop businesses from doing their part. Will legislators tell AI companies to turn off their power consumption while their servers are in the midst of a heat dome? I doubt it. So people gotta turn off A/C so that Ai can make an image of a dog eating an ice cream cone
Now I have said this for years.
So I did the following:
1. Went off grid solar and batteries on an island using diesel generators. I didn’t want to use the power due to massive pollution the local power company was causing. They switched to NG which while not the best is an incremental improvement. They just opened a second small solar field but the solar and wind on the island could easily power everything and some batteries would make it 90-95% of the time renewable. Maybe just make some green hydrogen at the desal plant with excess solar to make up the 5-10% of the time generation is needed.
2. Got super efficient heat pumps not just for AC but also hot water.
The really good part is all of this was not that expensive and paid back quick because on an island power is 42 to 50 cents per KWH. Total even with some issues I’m about 35% paid back already. Once we have a few of the last bugs out of the system should pay off in another 2-3 years. Its a unique case due to the location.
So while AC is not the best I saved money and minimized the damage.
My hope is the island will more quickly move to wind/solar and batteries. But local corruption has slowed the process.
Is the problem air conditioning, or is the problem that the electricity used for air conditioning is not sustainability generated? You can make the same argument for electric cars. All we are doing is shifting blame and kicking the can down the road. The root of the problem is and always has been with the fossil fuel industry.
Sure, frankly western standards of living are totally ecologically unsustainable, but as to AC, parts of the world are unlivable without it and those parts of the world are growing dramatically as the climate crisis deepens.
My house: between 76-80F depending on humidity.
Every office I’ve ever worked in: 69F
Once again, blaming the average person propaganda crap.
They can subsidize building a thick insulative layer around our homes.
This is very sensationalist reporting. What with the fonts, the dramatic writing, and th3 lack of detail and numbers. Last I checked the numbers AC was bad, but not nearly as bad as I once thought. At least it has sources, but no citations nor links.
More putting the blame on individual consumers when it’s a handful of huge corporations that are the problem.