The Loughborough University team says shaded homes could be six degrees cooler than exposed homes. God that sounds good right now

    • boonhet ( boonhet@sopuli.xyz ) 
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      4 months ago

      Did you read the article?

      “Air conditioning is going to be a bit of a problem for us at the moment because the electricity grid is not able to cope with that amount of electricity demand,” he said.

      This helps when your AC stops working because everyone’s using AC and there’s a brownout. It also helps you need less AC

      • Beehaw_Girl ( Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org ) 
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        4 months ago

        Thank you. I confess I have a reflexive aversion to clicking news links because no matter how persistently I use adblock extensions & pop-up blockers etc, most news links still end up being cancerous so I avoid them.