I’ve thought about the same shit and that’s true lol
Covid lockdown was the best days with climate
Hope everyone will understand what’s causing global warming
If only there were these things that grew out of the ground that cooled you home with their shade… What were they called again?
If only people who lived in houses understood that not everyone lives in a house.
+1 although trees can shade the ground around the building and cool the area that way too
Smart enough to understand heat pumps dumb enough to think it’s has that large of an effect.
In cities it actually does have an effect, especially in crowded ones. Millions of people in a relatively small area blasting AC “exhaust” out of their windows heat up the crammed air and in turn the buildings, streets, etc. which increases the heat island effect of cities.
Granted, it’s not a huge effect, but it’s measurable. First source I could find: https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/08/30/fact-check-is-air-conditioning-making-cities-hotter
see I’ve been wondering if a heat pump system could heat an oven hot enough to bake bread. use environmental heat to manufacture Wonder Bread or something.
I don’t know the answer, but it this did work it would both make the outside of the oven super cold and be so slow to warm up that it would be pointless. Keep in mind that you have to get stuff in and out so air exchange is inevitable, every time you open the door you’d be reducing the heat substantially and it would take a long time to rise back up.
Also my gut feeling is that any practical implementation wouldn’t be as energy efficient as you’d hope.
I don’t see why it shouldn’t be able to. You might need concentric shells depending on the power of the heat pump.
Huh guess so. But still 2.4 degrees ain’t a whole lot (well except on a global scale lol). Thankfully in this situation doesnt really cause additional global warming problems.
Cities are already about 5C hotter than the surrounding countryside. Adding this increase on top, means 7.5C.
4OC in the countryside is already bad, 47,5C in the city is deadly for a lot of people.
I think you underestimate, how deadly heat can be: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
Already happens in a very round a bout tangential way. At least in America, most homes have far more heating capacity than they will ever actually use.
I remember a statistic claiming that at the peak of the Iraq war, the annually power consumption of US military ACs alone exceeded that of the African continent.
