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- From: eric14@bernina.ethz.ch (Eric Baltischwiler)
- Subject: Re: Energy Demand
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.100122.14956@bernina.ethz.ch>
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 10:01:22 GMT
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- >> Don't air condition, open the window...
-
- This brings up a bigger issue. I'm all in favor of your advice and
- tend to follow it. However, this leads to repeated social problems in
- places like Los Angelos. I was reading an articule the other day (I
- forget where) that asserted that Air Conditioning is directly
- responsible for population shifts in the USA today. I've lived in
- Florida and California and one can certainly adjust to the climate,
- but I have to admit that Pheonix AZ would be a ghost town without Air
- Conditioning. To bring Scots and Swissmen into the conversation, just
- talk about heating.
-
- I bring this up because the responces to this post have so strongly
- supported the argument that when we choose where to live, must of us
- implicitly assume that we will have lots AirConditioning and/or
- Heating. IE We do not factor in the cost of it. Most people don't
- realise the extent of it. Pheonix is full of people wearing 3 piece
- suits in the summer. If you think about this, it is very strange
- behavior. It must use a lot of energy.
-
-
- So the question is:
-
- How much energy is our refusal to adapt to our local climates costing us?
-
- Can we change this? Should we try?
-
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-
- PS I'm currently in a centrally heated office in Zurich which is so
- overheated that the windows are open. It is probably about 5 deg C
- outside today!
-