Currently visiting Europe from Australia. The heat’s undeniably quite bad, but it’s high time Europe started investing in public infrastructure, building codes, and service laws to support people in these heat waves. I’m shocked at how difficult it is to access water anywhere!!
In France it is required by law that any café/restaurant provide you with free water when you ask. They don’t have to allow you to sit down and occupy a table if you’re not purchasing anything but they have to give you water.
These heat waves have been basically yearly and yet my family in France and the UK for some reason remain allergic to just getting an air conditioner. Sure, I get it, you don’t need it most of the year, but this at this point not at least buying a portable unit is ridiculous (and yes I know about European windows, that’s why I suggested a portable, way easier to rig a temp mount for a hose with some thick plastic sheeting at the worst case of all of the windows in the house won’t work as needed for the typical mounting set up)
Actually, these people could be sold air source heat pumps, which are reversible, and provide A/C in the summer, with the heating savings argument. Heating with these things is so much cheaper than traditional means that they pay themselves in a couple of years. In Spain you can buy split air/air units (no water heating) that cost less than the installation costs.
SEER 6.1 y SCOP 4
I wish my city would shut down when it hit 85F degrees. But I’m in Florida, so we just call 100F “normal” and move any victims from public view. Shit it’s 85F in the middle of the night here! …fuckin hate this place 🥵
Its not 85F ( 29.99… C ), i fucking wish.
Today we ( not france ) are hitting 38C ( +100F ) and thats just in the vicinity if france.
Paris is hitting 41C ( 106F ) today, and other places are even hotter!
Can’t wait for August…
But global warming isn’t real guys…
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