Climate change is making summers hotter, blackouts more common, and heat-related illness more dangerous. The power system may be resilient—but it still has vulnerabilities.
Living in an apartment on the top floor where I got to experience 90-100 degree weather for several weeks while the AC was broken… this is the climate change shit I worry about the immediate impact of. Saw a graph that showed the rise in night temperatures over 70 degrees and it’s concerning.
I’d love to own a passive haus to reduce energy costs related to cooling but a) I don’t have that kind of money, b) they’re primarily being adopted in Europe, and c) they gotta be built from scratch and those builders in the US are primarily in the Northeast.
Time for a swamp cooler and water-soaking buckets.
in all seriousness that sounds horrible. Had to live in non-AC dorms in university which reached ~ mid-80s at night during a heat wave and was pretty much uninhabitable during the day when there was a heat wave. That was terrible.
Living in an apartment on the top floor where I got to experience 90-100 degree weather for several weeks while the AC was broken… this is the climate change shit I worry about the immediate impact of. Saw a graph that showed the rise in night temperatures over 70 degrees and it’s concerning.
I’d love to own a passive haus to reduce energy costs related to cooling but a) I don’t have that kind of money, b) they’re primarily being adopted in Europe, and c) they gotta be built from scratch and those builders in the US are primarily in the Northeast.
Time for a swamp cooler and water-soaking buckets.
in all seriousness that sounds horrible. Had to live in non-AC dorms in university which reached ~ mid-80s at night during a heat wave and was pretty much uninhabitable during the day when there was a heat wave. That was terrible.