> the point of architecture, technology, and infrastructure is to make human life possible under difficult conditions.
The architecture angle is very telling. Architecture used to be the technology, and buildings were designed to resist overheating in summers (think of the large covered porches and cross-ventilation designs in houses in the U.S. South). Modern building abandoned almost all of those older techniques, and now building are built to retain and absorb heat; air conditioning is taken for granted.
Wanting to decrease air conditioning will require a return to the type of architecture that resists, rather than generates and traps, heat.
I write this as someone who doesn't have air conditioning, but who does live in a small, first-floor apartment with a window in the front and a window in the back and an open space from one to the other for cross ventilation. The building also has a large from porch that is covered, blocking direct sun rays from hitting the exterior walls. I use long-forgotten techniques to make my home tolerable in the summers (high temperatures are forecast to reach 100 degrees F in a couple of days), but that opportunity is available to me because of the architectural features of this old building.
The solution seems obvious. We simply need to move most council offices further away from the Sun. The 'dark side' of the Moon, perhaps?
On a more serious note, the Telegraph will be reporting this to take a jab at 'left wing' or 'looney left' Council's in the contested parts of the yoo-kay, but won't go near the idea of this being managed by design - it has to be treated comically if readers are to 'not' awaken to their fates.
Everyone looks at me crazy when I bought a direct solar powered AC window unit. It was expensive, but i know my family has a backup while in building our passive cooling home.
Get rid of psychopathic control freaks! Keep the air conditioners.
I love the idea of the badgir. I wonder how well it would work in high humidity areas like where I live in the Southeast?
We are caught between competing factions of authoritarian busybodies.
They are each promoting "solutions" that are mutually incompatible.
I wonder what badgirs look like after 500 million degrees.
Well, I don't know about 500 million degrees, but they look pretty good after 5000 years.
The core of the Sun is estimated at 15million Degrees.
You can use that as a reference to imagine 500,000,000
> the point of architecture, technology, and infrastructure is to make human life possible under difficult conditions.
The architecture angle is very telling. Architecture used to be the technology, and buildings were designed to resist overheating in summers (think of the large covered porches and cross-ventilation designs in houses in the U.S. South). Modern building abandoned almost all of those older techniques, and now building are built to retain and absorb heat; air conditioning is taken for granted.
Wanting to decrease air conditioning will require a return to the type of architecture that resists, rather than generates and traps, heat.
I write this as someone who doesn't have air conditioning, but who does live in a small, first-floor apartment with a window in the front and a window in the back and an open space from one to the other for cross ventilation. The building also has a large from porch that is covered, blocking direct sun rays from hitting the exterior walls. I use long-forgotten techniques to make my home tolerable in the summers (high temperatures are forecast to reach 100 degrees F in a couple of days), but that opportunity is available to me because of the architectural features of this old building.
The solution seems obvious. We simply need to move most council offices further away from the Sun. The 'dark side' of the Moon, perhaps?
On a more serious note, the Telegraph will be reporting this to take a jab at 'left wing' or 'looney left' Council's in the contested parts of the yoo-kay, but won't go near the idea of this being managed by design - it has to be treated comically if readers are to 'not' awaken to their fates.
Everyone looks at me crazy when I bought a direct solar powered AC window unit. It was expensive, but i know my family has a backup while in building our passive cooling home.