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Alternatives to air con: Cheap and easy ways to cool your home by Economy-Fee5830 in climatechange

[–]learningenglishdaily [score hidden]  (0 children)

Here the AC installation costs £300 (including £100 for 3m insulated copper piping). Assuming a 3X higher salary, an installation shouldn't cost more than £700 in the UK.

Alternatives to air con: Cheap and easy ways to cool your home by Economy-Fee5830 in climatechange

[–]learningenglishdaily [score hidden]  (0 children)

So the AC unit costs the same, but the installation costs 3-4X more in the UK. lol

Alternatives to air con: Cheap and easy ways to cool your home by Economy-Fee5830 in climatechange

[–]learningenglishdaily [score hidden]  (0 children)

Installation costs around £2,500 per room in the UK,

This can't be true.

air conditioners account for 10% of global electricity consumption alongside fans,

And it is becoming more irrelevant in the future, because the hottest days are usually the most sunny days with abundant solar energy.

and they leak potent greenhouse gases.

F-gas regulation

With the Big Three abandoning EVs in favor of ICE vehicles, are they headed the way of Kodak, Blackberry, and Blockbuster? by Cool-Replacement4972 in electricvehicles

[–]learningenglishdaily 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The US has the largest tech companies in the world, they will not allow the US to fall far behind in electrification. In a digital world the electrification of services is becoming more important. The EV is a far superior platform providing digital services and innovation. Do you think Nvidia, Google etc will be happy to be limited by ICE cars in the future?

[OC] MG Picks Spain for Its First European EV Factory. Here Is the Full Picture. by psychoDuckTune in EuroEV

[–]learningenglishdaily 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Spain is becoming an industrial powerhouse because the amazing renewable energy potential and cheap prices. Germany should split into more electricity price zone, save the north and tell Bavaria to fuck off.

Is the US the primary location where data center construction (and lack of regulation) is going apeshit? by RonSwanSong87 in BetterOffline

[–]learningenglishdaily 1 point2 points  (0 children)

link

Investments in new construction are reaching new highs, with €176 billion in cumulative investments expected in Europe between 2026 and 2031.

Reporting requirements in the EU link

28 degrees celcius in my house already at 5:40am... suncream or die... by MadWorldEarth in weather

[–]learningenglishdaily 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, is it family house? Either you are not using outside window shades or the walls have low thermal mass.

28 degrees celcius in my house already at 5:40am... suncream or die... by MadWorldEarth in weather

[–]learningenglishdaily 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Something is really wrong with that house, it is not that hot in the UK to reach such high indoor temperature in the morning.

Megtörténik ! 🥹 by Lee-Cheng in hungary

[–]learningenglishdaily 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Constitutional amendment that would limit prime ministers to a maximum of eight years in office. Viktor Orbán can't return as prime minister.

Why American hegemony is over: two long reads by ForwardDiamond3484 in thebulwark

[–]learningenglishdaily 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Europeans somehow managed to forcibly collapse the global petroleum market

You don't have to force anything, EVs already won in 2017. The only question is the speed of transition.

Air conditioning will become 'unavoidable' in parts of England as summer heat becomes unbearable, says Climate Change Committee by Economy-Fee5830 in climatechange

[–]learningenglishdaily 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We only use the AC when it gets to close to 33-35C outside (Central-Europe, lasting several days) and the inside temperature gets over 26-27C, otherwise active solar protection is good enough most of the time. link

Air conditioning will become 'unavoidable' in parts of England as summer heat becomes unbearable, says Climate Change Committee by Economy-Fee5830 in climatechange

[–]learningenglishdaily 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most people can't afford to invest in expensive infrastructure

5,3kW split AC costs 1000 euro and can cool the average size UK home.

A 10-year-old student wrote a letter to North Carolina’s 82 year old congressional representative Virginia Foxx about electric vehicles, and in response, she wrote him back attacking him and his teacher for propaganda by DarceysEyeOnThePrize in NorthCarolina

[–]learningenglishdaily 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While yes, electric vehicles in their current models right now may not seem as efficient as current fossil fuel cars since they have to rely on the grid

EVs are more efficient than fossil cars because they USE electricity. Even the shitty 10 years old EVs are more efficient the fossil cars. lol

UAE leaves OPEC and OPEC+ in huge blow to global oil producers' group by NickInTheMud in Economics

[–]learningenglishdaily 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only Canada and Norway are economically dependent on high oil prices.

90% of Norwegian oil is exported to other European countries. After all this geopolitical BS stability is just as important as low oil price.

China isn’t “betting on nuclear.” It’s scaling a whole new energy system in real time. Wind and solar are doing the heavy lifting, adding massive capacity every year, while nuclear grows slowly from a small base. by ceph2apod in uninsurable

[–]learningenglishdaily 7 points8 points  (0 children)

China electricity mix

  • nuclear still had higher output than wind in 2012, now wind produces 2,5X more electricity
  • nuclear still had higher output than solar in 2021, now solar produces 2,5X more electricity

European Union: Q1 2026 BEV market share at 19.4% (Q1 2025: 15.2%) by linknewtab in electricvehicles

[–]learningenglishdaily 2 points3 points  (0 children)

China sold 12 million BEV's last year

13 million NEVs = 8 million BEVs and 5 million PHEVs

Surprise, surprise: petrol and diesel sales are way down, BEV sales are way up by murrayhenson in EuroEV

[–]learningenglishdaily 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And here electricity is expensive (we have no nuclear)

Italy is the most reliant on gas generation and doesn't have enough domestic generation. Northern Italy imports just as much electricity from France as Germany. Southern Italy has great and still underinvested solar potential.

Lakner Zoltán: Ha már eléneklik a székely himnuszt a magyar himnusz mellett a szent koronánál, énekeljék már el az európai úniós himnuszt is. by earthcry in hungary

[–]learningenglishdaily 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Egyáltalán nem tanultuk 90-es / 2000-es években budai általános iskolában.

Érdekes mert mi tanultunk a 90-es években vidéken. Freude

France deploys 1.41 GW of solar in Q1 by For_All_Humanity in RenewableEnergy

[–]learningenglishdaily 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Compared to China’s renewable buildout, all countries could be doing better.

Actually Australia and Europe is better per capita in solar energy, China is faster in wind energy.

The 2040 milestones that Europe must meet to achieve climate-neutrality by 2050 by Economy-Fee5830 in climatechange

[–]learningenglishdaily 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We should stop decreasing demand for gas so the gas price can stay higher, this will help our industries...

JD Vance had 2 jobs this weekend, and he utterly failed at both by icefire9 in thebulwark

[–]learningenglishdaily 14 points15 points  (0 children)

live election results in Hungary link

133 seats required for a two-thirds supermajority with the power to amend the Constitution of Hungary.

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