• @pinknoise@lemmy.ml
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    13 years ago

    How about just don’t do it unless necessary? Around here only supermarkets do it and I hate it when they are refridgerators in the summer and saunas in the winter.

    • @roastpotatothief@lemmy.mlOP
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      13 years ago

      Yes and they are huge high-ceilinged warehouses with tin roofs. They are wasteful both in the amount of air they heat, and in the heat losses to outside. Sometimes they even have a heater at the doorway, mostly heating the outside.

    • @roastpotatothief@lemmy.mlOP
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      13 years ago

      This is a UK newspaper. But now I think of it, I’m sure the EU has efficiency ratings and requirements, both for AC units and for buildings. I imagine it really just pertains to the USA, this problem.