Summer is here and boy it’s hot and its going to get hotter ! Just think about this before turn up up the A/C , here are a few cooling facts about the influence your AC system has on our environment.
It’s like night comes after day the sun rises and your Air Conditioning is turned on like clockwork. Summertime arrives, and the air conditioning for home goes on in millions of American homes and workplaces. It is time for us to think about making our own homemade solar panels, to take some of the strain off the grid, before things deteriorate even more
Over the years we have become unable continue our lives in the heat, in fact we have come to be unwilling to tolerate it. We seem to want it to be cold, how many times do you go into a restaurant, office, store or shopping mall and it does not matter what’s temperature outside you really feel quite chilly when you get inside ! Why? Cool is good but cold is crazy !
Meanwhile, outside, the planet’s getting hotter. This is something we would rather we were not reminded of, but the world is well into a collision course lead by AC versus the planets environmentt. We now spend much more energy on cooling and heating than the rest of the world put together but things are beginning deteriorate quickly as other regions especially – India, China – where they have just started to crank up their A/C. Many of the individual inhabitants in emerging countries have their own renewable energy systems supplying their houses .
Currently in Nort America we consume, and therefore need to generate more electricity just for cooling and heating the places we live and work in, than the African sub-continent uses for all its needs year in year out.
Well then you say, make the air conditioning for homes more efficient! The chilling fact is that in the last two decades A/C systems have become twenty five more efficient, well there you are then, you reply. HOWEVER the reverse side of the coin is that we now use 36% more electricity for air conditioning than we did 2 decades ago. WHAT? As A/C systems became more efficient and therefore less expensive to run, our reaction was to turn down the thermostat a few degrees, add to this fact that more houses have Air Conditioning units , adds up to the thirty sic percent increase in the use of energy just for cooling!
So lets go over the facts again, we now have more homes with an increased number AC units. In the last two decades years we have endured the hottest seven years on record, with another set of high temperatures forecast for this year, so we are going to need record amounts of electrical power to keep us cool. More electricity used = increased electricity generated, using carbon based fuels = more pollution from the CO2 emitted = more Global warming = more heat = more A/C = etc. etc. I’m sure you see where this is heading!
It is not all entirely our fault the new houses we purcase are not constructed to comply the regional variations, the identical style of house is being built in New England as is Arizona, with 2 totally opposite yearly weather patterns. This has been made doable by the use of Air Conditioning to the elimination of all architectural designs that could have assisted to keep our houses a cooler and/or warmer using natural design tecniques.
It will soon reach a point ,in the not to distant future, where we will end up having power shortages if we carry on building air conditioning for homes rather design homes that are designed not to need so much Air Conditioning .
Firstly check out my articles on more efficient use of electricity, which will help to make your house more energy and heat efficient.
Secondly make use of natures own cooling agents – plants and trees, trees round you house to give some shade, plants than cover walls to absorb some of the suns direct heat, plants on window sills will help absorb some of the heat entering though windows.
Thirdly get some air flow through the house shade you windows then open them, use ceiling fans they are very cheap to run and will lower the heat by around 4 degrees.
Now is a great time to think about putting in your own DIY residential photovoltaic solar panels, not only to block the possible power shortages, but also to give you some relief from the increasing cost of commercial electricity. There are some very good online guides that show you in step by step stages how to do it all.
Prepare for the future before air conditioning for homes comes to rule our daily life. Make your home more energy/heat efficient and give serious consideration to building you own DIY solar system.
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