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i love wearing my slutty clothes tho
i see 20 year old gals bare legged in winter and wish i was that courageous with my sluttiness
Tougher than the troops!
I hate the heat so much.
You’re not going to like the future then
That seems to be true on many subjects these days…
I know 🥲
Autumn lovers >>> all other seasons
It’s barely a season though. Summer and winter are months long. Any place that actually gets something akin to autumn anymore, itonly lasts for like a few weeks. If that. There are two seasons: summer and winter. They just have barely discernible transition periods which more often than not amount to a few days of back and forth weather, from nice for a day or two, back to the previous seasons temps, then lurching forward to the next, then back and forth with some median-“season” days mixed in mid swing.
Thanks Shell, Exxon, BP, Koch industries, Lockheed, et al
Yep, they fucked up the planet just to make more money. I’d rather buy an NFT made by an AI than give those people another penny, if I had a choice in the matter
Sounds like climate change alright!
throwback to the almost summer temperatures back in january, and now snow just a week ago in april, i love this timeline.
It’s my favorite season, except this past year it was rarely ever cool. Winter was better this year. I feel like that’s only going too become more true as we go on.
Summer Enjoyers when they get 8th degree burns on their face after they pass out onto the concrete from heat exhaustion.
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I too struggled with finding bedding that was not too heavy, breathable, but warm. I picked up an alpaca wool blanket from eBay and use that with a top sheet and the ceiling fan. It’s pretty amazing.
What did the llama parent say on the first day of school?
Alpaca lunch for you
reasons #3742, #3755 and #6278 of why i hate summer.
This is a silly thing to argue over because we don’t get to pick seasons and have to live through the one currently on.
If you can’t pick seasons you just need to pick yourself up by the bootstraps. No reason anybody can’t pick seasons.
Maybe you don’t
You can however move to a hotter/colder climate. You don’t need to suffer the climate you don’t enjoy if you’re willing to suffer the consequence
I don’t think many people have such privilege to change countries they live in freely based on whims
easier to warm up than cool down imo
Clothes-wise sure, we put it 100W at rest, we need only capture that.
I really don’t get why you can still buy cooling-only air conditioners when any heat pump can work just as well in either direction
Every aircon should heat or cool the indoor space as required
Then it becomes easy to cool or warm at ~400% efficiency
As s far as window units go, one of the biggest losses is in insulation around the window.
Those that have window units do so because there’s really no alternative.
Would bi-directional window-mount ACs be effective heaters, given how much loss a window unit sees through drafts?
If it works for cooling there’s no reason it wouldn’t work for heating. If they need to stand in the air path for cooling they will need to stand in the air path for heat
Yeah but the ∆T between cooling and heating is way different.
Here in MA, we cool as much as
Outdoor - 30F, but we often heatOutdoor + 50F. Sometimes more. Drafts introduced by a poor seal (which is often the case with window units) would be a big deal, no?
*Cries in tropical weather*
Even when it rains, it can still be over 30 degrees. Life is pain.
Winter is about to arrive down here. It’s dry season, with “cold” (18-22º C) nights and scorching hot (29º+) days. Oh, and there’s a fuckton of heatwaves that might come around, which are totally not caused by excessive pollution and CO2 emission!
I feel you, man. I live by the coast. I’ll be lucky if my neighborhood doesn’t join Atlantis in the next decade.
I have an in-window AC that runs on full blast at night in the summers on top of my whole-house AC. 58 degrees FTabsoluteW.
Wow Exxon loves you
For now…solar panels are going in soon, which should more than cover it
Not gonna do shit at night.
I bought a battery for mine but you’re about to find how just how much power your AC system uses.
I know exactly how much it uses, I still have a regular electric bill.
In relation to how much power you’re going to make.
Are you buying batteries? Unless you’re buying a whole lot of them ($$$) you’re not even making it one night running your AC like that.
I spent $10k on a whole home battery and it got me 1/3 of my average daily power use.
I stress average because summers were double that, sometimes 2.6x.
I don’t know where you are from, but I’ve been to the US a couple of times and I can understand why the AC power bill can be absurd there. You cannot keep, in August, in the middle of the desert, AC at 18°C when outside there are 35-40°C. It’s criminal on so many levels.
I had a layover in Atlanta last summer and I got home sick, so much was the air conditioning in the airport and in shops and restaurants. Outside it was proper sweating hot, inside I was freezing while wearing a hoodie. I’ve been on a bus where the driver was wearing a heavy jacket, in August, and all because the bus AC was set to something like 15°C. What is wrong with Americans?
Keep AC at 25-27°C, remove all blankets and clothes when you go to sleep, and I bet you it will consume a lot less energy. Unless you live in the Death Valley, in which case, good luck.
This was in west Texas so yeah, basically desert.
I fully agree - every thread like this has people coming out of the woodwork claiming they’d simply die if their house isn’t =< 65f. Maybe it’s because we’re so fat?
25c/77f is a perfectly reasonable temperature to have your house at. If I lived alone, it’d be 78 in the summer.
Yup, could do this. Have tried to do this. Slept like shit. Not worth it. I’ll spend the extra $50/mo on cranking the AC to wake up each day feeling decent.
I spent $10k on a whole home battery and it got me 1/3 of my average daily power use.
Good thing you have a sun for most of the other 2/3.
Have you even looked at the power curve of solar system output? You’re being obtuse.
Plus you seem to have completely ignored the last portion of my comment.
I rarely had months where I zeroed out my bill since I was in an area where credits weren’t a thing. My overproduction was sold back at ~$0.03 per kWh. I had to buy at ~$0.12.
You can be snarky if you like. You’re still wrong if you think that’s enough to cover summer days.
My house was built with vents, un-closable, always venting vents. Inside temperature equals outside air temperature plus a little draft as the air moves from inside to outside and outside to inside
Heating or cooling is economically impractical, except in two rooms, one with no vent and one with a vent blocked with foil
I look forward to a knock down/rebuild where the future house will be will insulated and will exchange air with the outside in measured, heat exchanged doses and solar powered air con can heat or cool the house in peak solar generation and the house will be pleasant the rest of the day and night. I’m comfortable in 18°C to about 26° in winter and a little offset upwards in summer, and it’s pretty easy to build to not gain or lose more than 8° in 18 hours in my climate (lows in the single digit negatives Celcius; highs seldom more than 40°C)
exxon fucking HATES heat pumps, they want everyone to live in the coldest winter burning fossil fuels to survive.
I set my AC to 26°C (79°F) in summers. As far as I know, most people in my country do somewhere between 20 and 26°C (68~79°F).
I bet you also sleep with a heavy blanket as if it were winter.
I got sick last time I was in the US cause everywhere was like 16°C while outside was like 30-35°C. What’s your problem, people?
We love AC. We also realize that it’s easier tod add layers than to take them off, when out in public.
Bring a hoodie? 🤷
Wow. I am impressed from where I sit, in a house with the AC set to 66F, sometimes 65, to save energy vs where we might otherwise set it.
People consider 70 ideal, don’t they? So 65 is only a saving in winter, you would set a higher temperature than ideal in summer
Yeah, it was kind of a joke to say I’d probably like it even colder.
And 65 does just happen to be our default winter setting!
Nah, #teamsummer here. I struggle so much in the winter. I either the blanket is too thick and I’m warm but at the cost of waking up drenched it sweat or it’s too thin and I have a hard time falling asleep because it’s chilly. There’s just no blanket that’s breathable and isolates well. In the summer I can just use a thin cotton bed sheet and sleep with the window open. Nights like this are one of my favorite things and I love falling asleep to the sound of crickets chirping outside.
I would hardly run the AC if the hottest it got in summertime in Oklahoma City was 90°F. But last year, we had several instances where it got up to 100 or 105. And the dew point was 70-75 degrees all summer. So your sweat hardly evaporates. I run my AC all day to keep it 80 degrees and swampy indoors.
I would love to redo my whole house’s HVAC system where one smallish central unit cools the kitchen and living room and each of the bedrooms have their own ductless mini split. This is one way to achieve zoning. There’s no reason to cool the entire house to 65 degrees if I’m about to be asleep in the bedroom for the next 8 hours. There’s no reason to try to keep the whole house cool when I’m about to spend my day in my home office. Just cool the room I’m in and leave the rest alone.
I could also do window units, but for some reason, my wife is vehemently opposed to them. Her parents just put window units in all their bedrooms and one in their living room. They don’t use the central unit anymore. They only cool the room they’re in right now, and their power bills went from $400 to $150 in summer. They paid for themselves in one season.
Window units are loud AF.
Running a dehumidifier has been the best thing I’ve ever done though. I believe I’m from a more humid environment though.
One of the best things about living inland is having indoor relative humidity over 30% being high
Closing vents and doors helps.
You shouldn’t. Blocking vents is bad for your blower motor as your constricting the system and putting unwanted wear on the blower motor.
You can do it. But you may end up damaging your hvac system and wearing out some parts much faster then normal.
I have two types of vents:
- floor vents - to send central heat to all the rooms
- Ceiling vents - to send inside air outside
I can’t see any problem with closing one of those types of vent
Again you’re constraining your blower motor by doing so. It’s added wear and tear. It won’t break over night but you will require repairs faster then if you didn’t touch the vents.
Do want you want. It’s your property. But this is similar to someone constantly leaning on their breaks when they are driving.
I think you misread my comment. I wasn’t talking about closing vents attached to a blower
What other vents could you possibly be talking about if not hvac vents?
Vents that they used to put in ceilings in houses in Australia to ensure there was good air exchange between the inside and outside. They vent indoor air to roof space.
They seem to have come from architects who lived in places without winter
learn to open your doors and windows in the nighttime (with bug nets obviously) and keep them closed during the day, nature’s AC.
That works now, but from June to August the nights aren’t all that much cooler and there is rarely any wind either. Still makes sense, but it feels so futile. I am Sisyphus.
I still like to, if I can, because I don’t want old-breath hotboxing CO^2 brain damage. My mom calls this fresh air.
The nights aren’t very cool in some parts of the world.
I wish bug nets for windows (or at all) were standard in Sweden. In some places in the country you will be bitten by 10 thousand mosquitoes just because you dared to open the window for a minute.
I keep my PC in my bedroom so it’s hard in general to keep the room comfortable but in the winter you can at least open the windows for a few seconds and nearly instantly make the room comfortable (and without insects). In the summer it’s fucking impossible to keep the room cool no matter what you do. At least the PC has good cooling so it survives; I just wish I would.
You can install bug nets yourself easily. There are some from tesa, its the net and a roll of velcro-like tape. I love them.
I’m more of a Spring/Fall enjoyer, but I like winter too. Summer I just turn on a bunch of fans because AC is expensive AF and has a chonky carbon footprint
