Some people say that environmentalist are all talk, they’ll probably go home and do like everyone else, sleep on a couch. turn on the iphone and use the ac, enjoy the capital goods as some would say. yep, they’re right. were not doing enough for the environment. I’m going to try something new.
It’s fucking hot where I live. at certain times my room can feel like a microwave if I don’t use air conditioning. but it probably uses fossil fuel to power this thing. so, I’m going to unplug it for two weeks and see what happens.
None at all unless you wish to enhance it’s effectiveness.
For more in this vein you can take a look at dessicant-based air-conditioning. Here’s a paper (pop the doi.org url into Sci-Hub to get the pdf) on the topic, and a video demonstrating it’s effectiveness. The future of air-conditioning could be bright!
Just for fun, I heard talk of phase change materials being incorporated into furniture a few years ago. I haven’t heard anything since but it seems like a promising passive system for the future https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-change_material