The Off Topic Topic

[Josquius]

No

So hard for me to imagine a world without AC.

It's my usual experience in life. Japan was a revelation with it's AC everywhere setup.
Switzerland has heating but doesn't really need it where I live. We could use AC a lot more

[Syt]

Recommendation to deal with the upcoming heat on a webpage:

"If you have to work at your computer, lower the heat by disabling the firewall. Don't use Firefox or your CD/DVD burner. Be sure to open as many windows as possible to create a draft."

[Admiral Yi]

If you don't have AC that means you must be heating with a furnace.  How primitive.

[Liep]

If you don't have AC that means you must be heating with a furnace.  How primitive.

How do you draw that conclusion?

[Syt]

If you don't have AC that means you must be heating with a furnace.  How primitive.

I have a tankless gas boiler in my apartment that sends hot water to the radiators in winter. It's still very common in Vienna, though new apartments often have central heating or long distance heating.

[Admiral Yi]

How do you draw that conclusion?

Because you generally either heat with a furnace or a heat pump.  A heat pump doubles as AC.

[Liep]

How do you draw that conclusion?

Because you generally either heat with a furnace or a heat pump.  A heat pump doubles as AC.

Plenty of people heat with electricity, most people in Copenhagen has district heating though.

[Malthus]

The heating system in my house dates to the early 1930s, when the house was built - that is, hot water boiled by a furnace distributed in radiators (the furnace is new - we replaced the ancient oil furnace with a modern gas one).

Air con is by a unit mounted on the wall - it does the whole house. We added that too - the original owners had window units in each room.

Here at least, you really need both AC and heating. In the summers it gets really, really hot.

[The Brain]

Welcome to Air Con.

[Josquius]

Central hearing is the normal modern way to heat (it has been around a while but still going fine).
I've only seen those low down air pump things in some older mid 20th century houses.

[Admiral Yi]

Apparently it is the normal modern way in countries that send people home because it's too hot.

[The Brain]

Central hearing is the normal modern way to heat (it has been around a while but still going fine).
I've only seen those low down air pump things in some older mid 20th century houses.

Come again?

[garbon]

How do you draw that conclusion?

Because you generally either heat with a furnace or a heat pump.  A heat pump doubles as AC.

My place has electric radiators in each room. Actually my place in SF was the same though I was afraid those would catch fire and I never used them.

[Grey Fox]

My house has electric radiators in each rooms, like Garbon.

I have 4 window ACs. I want to change it for a wall mounted unit that can do the whole house because the downside of window ACs is the noise. So much fucking noise.

[Josquius]

Apparently it is the normal modern way in countries that send people home because it's too hot.

Heating people wouldn't really help with that.
When I was in japan I learned that using AC to heat was a terrible and inefficient thing to do. Most people use kerosene heaters or various forms of electric heater