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   feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 04:18:03 JST feld

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   yup, just run AC in reverse to get a heat pump
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     highvoltage (highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 04:18:09 JST highvoltage

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     @Adirondack @panduck @kevinrns @Barbramon1 @jeber What? An air conditioner *is* a heat pump.
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     @panduck @kevinrns @Barbramon1 @jeber

     A heat pump transfers heat into or out of your home from the outdoor compressor via a refrigerant, where an indoor fan unit either cools or heats the air by blowing it over a coil of the refrigerant. It can either heat or cool your home.

     An air conditioner cools hot outside air then blows it into your house. So, rather than continually cooling the increasingly cool inside air, it always has to cool the hot outside air. Less efficient than a heat pump.

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     Lett Osprey (panduck@mastodon.green)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 04:18:19 JST Lett Osprey

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     @Adirondack @kevinrns @Barbramon1 @jeber I thought a heat pump and an airconditioner was the same thing :o

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     Adirondack :toad: (adirondack@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 04:18:20 JST Adirondack :toad:

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     @kevinrns @Barbramon1 @jeber

     Also: wash your clothes about a quarter as much as you do now, and hang them to dry; don't use the dryer.

     Work from home if possible.

     Install a heat pump or a swamp cooler instead of an air conditioner.

     Put in rooftop solar if you can.

     Grow your own vegetables and raise a few backyard chickens if you have the space.

     Ride your bicycle where safe.

     Take public transportation where available.

     These are not huge sacrifices, and can even be lots of fun.

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     Barbara Monaco (barbramon1@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 04:18:21 JST Barbara Monaco

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     It's happening today. More and more people who thought they were safe from the dire consequences of climate change are seeing those changes in their own back yards. When it's no longer an abstract concept people may be spurred to take action.

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     Kevin Russell (kevinrns@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 04:18:21 JST Kevin Russell

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     The demand is build.

     Japan sank the American fleet in Pearl Harbour, fascist Japan's conqquer the world plan with Nazi Germany.

     Roosevelt rebuilt the fleet, as fast as America could, and defeated fascist Japan.

     Build Sun and wind energy generation like tanks and ships for war.

     Right now.

     #Climate

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     RevJeber 🫶🏼 (jeber@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 04:18:22 JST RevJeber 🫶🏼

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     @kevinrns @Adirondack @Barbramon1 Humans never deal appropriately with existential crisis. Unless it’s happening today we ignore it. We’ll pay lip service to the problem but make no real progress. It’s a form of “out of sight, out of mind”.

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     Barbara Monaco (barbramon1@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 04:18:23 JST Barbara Monaco

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     @kevinrns Normally Palm Springs doesn't open its cooling centers on Sunday-makes no sense to me-but they will do so this weekend. Unhoused can use those facilities. Obviously this is just a bandaid covering two festering wounds, homelessness and climate change. Both are tough, multifaceted problems that can no longer be ignored.

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     Kevin Russell (kevinrns@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 04:18:23 JST Kevin Russell

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     Excessive heat hurts power grids. Excessive use from excessive heat hurts power grids.

     Power going out, authorities warn, means "hundreds of thousands" could need medical care. Or worse.

     Next year the temperatures will be higher.

     The next year after that will be higher, because oil execs and politicians have lied for decades.

     The next year, temperatures will be higher.

     We have been warned.

     We've been reassured, they were lying.

     Build all the sun, wind, now.

     #Climate

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     Kevin Russell (kevinrns@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 04:18:24 JST Kevin Russell

     You're going to read about the climate heat using these "normal" words but the temp above too hot, is death.

     It doesn't just feel hot, it kills. Thats how hot climate "warming" gets.

     "In Palm Springs — where Friday's high temperature was forecast to hit 116 degrees — many homeless people left to contend with the heat on their own.

     "I don't know how anyone can do it," he said. "I feel so bad . . . there's not much I can do."

     Build sun, wind. All of it, NOW
     #Climate

     https://www.cbsnews.com/news/heat-wave-temperatures-southwest-fire-risk-to-california/