Very useful post that's literally just facts about air conditioning in europe heatmap.news/daily/europe-a
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Sounds like the UK's boomer luxury communism triple lock problem & their "air conditioning is a yank disease" problem might just end up cancelling each other out
It would be interesting to add to this limitations on AC’s use because this tempers penetration. I was just in Italy, where AC is not allowed to cool below 80 degrees F! So penetration might be rising but actually cooling is pretty modest and feels super insufficient to spoiled
The heat wave is moving east now. It'll be interesting to see how the Poles and Czechs and Hungarians and others react to it all, compared to the French and Germans and Belgians and Brits so far.
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The media could not be played.
It's a good post.
The facts support an economic-climatolgical explanation over the Euro-snob moralizing culture explanation.
Electricity is more expensive, Euros are not as rich as Americans, and some places are hotter than others.
The UK as well as almost all of NW Europe has an oceanic (mildest) climate. Canada has harsher winters and harsher summers.
“X rich country has a 4x different AC adoption rate than Y” is a disproof that they have similar climates! Toronto without AC is unlivable, London isn’t
Japan world leader? In Israel, UAE, Saudi Arabia etc. it's about 95-100%...
Europes average temperature is approximately the same as WA's.
Washington state has ~50% a/c ownership.
Average homes in WA are timber built.
E.U has about ~20% a/c ownership.
Average home is brick/concrete built.
Avg monthly gross disposable income in EU is ~€2,200.