Bob has a point about house design. Here in Queensland, where we put on
sweaters below 20C, the traditional house was built with wide and shaded
verandas and with plenty of windows you could open to allow air circulation.
In addition, often there would be a central corridor with doors at both ends to
promote even more airflow, and often built on stilts ("highset" is the term).
Nowadays, of course, all that has been thrown out of the window, and most
modern housing is either apartment blocks or brick veneer "lowset" houses with
no veranda at all, and set on a concrete pad with no underfloor circulation!
Brick veneer buildings have an outer skin one brick wide and are timber framed
inside, so almost no insulation unless they are filled with plastic foam.
In our winter right now, yesterday the temperature range was 9-28, today the
forecast is 14-24, so I'll be wearing a light jumper!
John in Brisbane
-----Original Message-----
From: PDML <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bob Pdml
Sent: Thursday, 20 August 2020 1:11 AM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Quiet List
> On 19 Aug 2020, at 14:54, Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 19/8/20, Bob Pdml, discombobulated, unleashed:
>
>> That's why the world's going to hell in a handbasket.
>>
>> Everyone's an exception and it's everyone else who has to make sacrifices.
>>
>> Tragedy of the commons.
>
> The thing about being cold is, it's easy to stay warm - put on more clothes.
> If you're too hot, how do you cool down? I had the fan on, water spraying,
> everything. I felt ill and couldn't function.
>
> So the answer is to simply feel ill for a week and do nothing?
>
Maybe. It’s only a week.
There are all sorts of strategies for coping, many of which Ralf has outlined,
and most of the world copes without AC. We lived in hot and humid countries for
years without AC. If it’s your normal climate you, er, acclimatise...
It’s not our normal climate here and right-thinking people should be horrified
at the idea of using AC in this country. If that seems like the solution then
something is going very wrong indeed and rather than adding to the problem we
need to be looking at other ways to cope with it until we have reversed the
problem. That means adapting our homes and the way we live by taking lessons
from the people whose normal climate this is and who have developed techniques
over millennia for dealing with it.
But in the short term yes, maybe you just have to put up with it for a week.
Take the yacht out...
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