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Why does anyone in AZ, NM or CO need an A/C when they could use a swamp cooler? It is cheaper to run, easy to fix and costs less. There is a need for A/C, but there is no need for homes to be 68 degrees inside in the summer and offices to be so cold you need a sweater when it is 95 outside.
AC is the only reason vast numbers of people could live year round in Arizona and Nevada.
Cultures of the Middle East/Med and elsewhere have adapted to their environments centuries ago without the use of the AC.
You could take a clue from them, in their clothing, their building construction and architecture and adapt it to an American sensibility.
Correct. I've taken notice that the buildings here are not built with climate in mind. NY summers are horrible and oppressive and yet, the buildings are primarily brick. They hold the heat and one feels as if you are a pizza being cooked in a brick oven surrounded by a multitude of other brick ovens. Places here are not built with anything in mind other than a landlord or real estate developer making a quick buck.
Why does anyone in AZ, NM or CO need an A/C when they could use a swamp cooler? It is cheaper to run, easy to fix and costs less. There is a need for A/C, but there is no need for homes to be 68 degrees inside in the summer and offices to be so cold you need a sweater when it is 95 outside.
Have you ever been in a home in AZ in the summer that uses a swamp cooler? They will only cool the house around 25 to 30 degrees less than the outside temp. When its 115 outside a swamp cooler turns your house into a humid 85 degrees. You rarely find a swamp cooler by itself now unless someone uses it in their garage. Other places it might work but not in AZ for me.
These people who must find a reason to "save something", who must find away to make people suffer and make people pay. May someday become more concerned with saving them self instead of taxing cigarettes, and junk food or spreading the concern of global warming as the gulliotine and angry crowds fed up with them create a new brand of reality show.
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