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I feel like "air-conditioning is Singapore-coded" is also not going to convince the Europeans alas
In fairness, swamp coolers are typically more efficient than AC in the ranges where they are effective (low exterior humidity, modest temperature differential)
The appropriate analogy is to Red Plenty and the Soviet’s endless attempts to try to avoid Lagrange multipliers (ie prices) and the other essential machinery of economic optimization…
They want to be premodern. They will very likely succeed in the long run.
Heat pumps are literally like 400% efficient. It seems like it must be breaking physics but it isn’t.
Ever since they kicked out the Jews the Euros have not really had a clear understanding of physics or anyone around to explain it to them
You can use the ground as a heat sink to cool the hot side of the refrigerant loop.
Willis H Carrier did not conquer the weather only for europeans to return to swamp coolers
Alternatively, basically anything you could theoretically do with these passive approaches can be improved by adding an A/C unit somewhere in the air loop, and then used to even greater effect
Like, if you want to run an A/C off cool underground temps... you make a geo loop
As the US become more and more dysfunctional, the euro bashing increase. We have AC in Europe and it’s wildy use when appropriate.
They’re basically just going to have to recreate windcatchers and qanats
How is chilled air "naturally rising" without some external forces of some type?
