Pushing Indoor Heat Outdoors.
Saturday, August 5th, 2006A/C D.C. The deluded world of air conditioning
Outdoor air used to cool at night, allowing us to recover from the day’s heat. Now it doesn’t. To fuel our own air conditioning, we’re destroying nature’s.
The hotter it gets, the more energy we burn. In 1981, only one in three American households with central air used it all summer long. By 1997, more than half did. Countries once cooled by outdoor air now cool themselves. In Britain, 75 percent of new cars have air conditioning. In Canada, energy consumption for residential cooling has doubled in 10 years, and half the homes now have central or window units. Kuujjuaq, an Eskimo village 1,000 miles north of Montreal, just bought 10 air conditioners. According to the mayor, it’s been getting hot lately.
We are spoiled in the western world with air conditioning, but it is getting hotter. Think of the billions of people in less developed countries that live in scorching heat without any A/C. People know how to handle it there.