Odd how that works.
Anyway, we have it here at the house, but usually it's either not on or it's set pretty high. This summer hasn't been too hot for some reason.
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Anyone else live without air conditioning?
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Odd how that works.
Anyway, we have it here at the house, but usually it's either not on or it's set pretty high. This summer hasn't been too hot for some reason.
Miss Jaffa Cake and I both enjoyed a Fruit Pastelle lolly. It was so cold it made my brain hurt. Lovely stuff.
Never had AC; most parts of the Bay Area don't really *need* it, and if they do, it's usually only for a handful of days out of the year. On those hot days, you open up all the windows, sit downstairs, and hope that the fridge can keep up with your demand on ice.
I lived in Thailand, where the daily high is usually 32-36 each day and the lows are usually in the mid-twenties. You do get used to it. The main reason for air conditioning there was the "modern" architecture that makes it necessary. The positioning of old houses and their construction material make them naturally cooler.
If I was working on my computer, I would run the air conditioning at 27 during the day, mainly to cut the humidity and make it bearable to be cooped up inside.
By contrast, I returned to my parents house this June during a "heat wave" and asked why it was so cold...
If I was working on my computer, I would run the air conditioning at 27 during the day, mainly to cut the humidity and make it bearable to be cooped up inside.
By contrast, I returned to my parents house this June during a "heat wave" and asked why it was so cold...
Never had air-conditioning ever in my life. And I'm from Ohio where it gets pretty humid and sticky during the summer.
I can't see how people view AC as a necessity (or cars, or TVs, or iPods, or cellphones). Mankind has been able to survive without these accommodations for thousands of years. When electricity gets too expensive to cool your house, be prepared to go outside and meet your neighbors. (the horror! the horror!)
I can't see how people view AC as a necessity (or cars, or TVs, or iPods, or cellphones). Mankind has been able to survive without these accommodations for thousands of years. When electricity gets too expensive to cool your house, be prepared to go outside and meet your neighbors. (the horror! the horror!)
south florida gets way too hot for much of the year not to have a/c. i think we had a/c on nearly every day since february and we're likely to have to keep it on for another 2-3 months before it gets cool enough to be without it. a/c season is usually april-october, but it started way early this year. fans are on nearly every day of the year, expect for those very brief cold snaps in the winter.
and we're likely to have to keep it on for another 2-3 months before it gets cool enough to be without it. a/c season is usually april-october, but it started way early this year. fans are on nearly every day of the year, expect for those very brief cold snaps in the winter.
I couldn't survive without it in a humid country, luckily I live in the UK so it rarely goes above 30, still while I was in london last friday I collapsed with heat exhaustion, I take a wide brimmed foldable sunhat with me everywhere I go in the summer these days.
I've never owned air conditioning, I hope never to have to.
I've never owned air conditioning, I hope never to have to.
You may find not spending 12 hours in a club going mental-oriental at 150bpm tends to help on the cooling-off front
That's why they have to put little lock-boxes over the controls in office buildings. I've seen fights break-out before they were invented.
For me, I'm on the South-East corner of my building, balcony facing East. No Sun after about 1:00 PM on me.
I went the first 6 Summers here with just fans.
Getting a little older now, plus more hot days, so I grabbed a used A/C from someone moving out. $40, and works like a charm.
To be Green, I only run it when it hits 28ºC, or 35ºC Humidex.
Well, it is a favour from God that we (human) can adjust ourselves to live in many environments and survive.
AC is an example that shows how human is very well designed and created.
All the Praises and thanks be to Allah.
AC is an example that shows how human is very well designed and created.
All the Praises and thanks be to Allah.
Erm....surely if we were that well designed we wouldn't need aircon at all?
Mine went out once during the summer... it was a freaking nightmare, needless to say, I spent most of my time anywhere but the house.
Yeah, that or thousands of years of terraforming and changing the environment to suit our needs.
In fact, it shows quite the opposite; without tools, our bodies would rapidly succumb to the cruelty of the natural world.
Air Conditioners are a must in South Texas. We run ours all year.
Now I have lived places, Germany, Upstate New York, that we didn't have air and we made it through.
Now I have lived places, Germany, Upstate New York, that we didn't have air and we made it through.
The heat island effect in AZ is getting bad, they were talking about it in the 60/70s as an eventual problem.
Now it is here. The roads and concrete hold heat, and the ac units pump heat from the inside to the outside all raising the minimum nightime temps and the max during the day to a noticeable degree.
And the people add humidity to the community, raising the heat index yet again.
Wonder how long it'll go until the problem levels off.
Though the water problem might make Phoenix area enact measures that have people digging up lawns and filling in pools.
Now it is here. The roads and concrete hold heat, and the ac units pump heat from the inside to the outside all raising the minimum nightime temps and the max during the day to a noticeable degree.
And the people add humidity to the community, raising the heat index yet again.
Wonder how long it'll go until the problem levels off.
Though the water problem might make Phoenix area enact measures that have people digging up lawns and filling in pools.
No AC here. I'm in mountains of Central Appalachia but these mountains aren't cool in the summer. It's been in the mid-80s today and quite sunny. But the temperatures of various rooms in the house are presently between 65 to 73 degrees (F).
My grandfather built the house in 1910 on a large sloping lot with numerous tree planted soon afterwards to block the hot summer sun. Those trees are now large enough to effectively block the summer sun, and tall enough to provide a high canopy over the lower level of the lot. It stays at least 10 degrees cooler under that canopy vs. the land in open sun. I can open one window in the masonry addition that reaches under the northern side of the canopy and draw in cool air into the house without the use for a fan, but I use two exhaust fans in the attic and a window fan in a far corner of the house to pull the cooler air throughout the house.
Some locals seem to think I should cut down "the forest" growing around my property but that isn't going to happen. I like the privacy and the natural setting it provides, and the cooling factor is a huge plus.
My grandfather built the house in 1910 on a large sloping lot with numerous tree planted soon afterwards to block the hot summer sun. Those trees are now large enough to effectively block the summer sun, and tall enough to provide a high canopy over the lower level of the lot. It stays at least 10 degrees cooler under that canopy vs. the land in open sun. I can open one window in the masonry addition that reaches under the northern side of the canopy and draw in cool air into the house without the use for a fan, but I use two exhaust fans in the attic and a window fan in a far corner of the house to pull the cooler air throughout the house.
Some locals seem to think I should cut down "the forest" growing around my property but that isn't going to happen. I like the privacy and the natural setting it provides, and the cooling factor is a huge plus.
Couldn't live without it. Today the weather is nice... at 95 F (35 C). When we're unlucky it's nearly 115 F (45 C).
South Texas without A.C? I don't think so. It's 35 C (95 F) right now, I would be roasting with this iBook on my lap without A.C.
When I lived in NYC, AC was an absolute must. Those humid days during the summers are absolute hell without any AC.
But now that I live in SF, I don't need any. Don't own one, either. Makes up somewhat for the expensive cost-of-living here...
But now that I live in SF, I don't need any. Don't own one, either. Makes up somewhat for the expensive cost-of-living here...