• sandbox@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    My point is that the anti air conditioner stuff is just greenwashing, that’s all. The facts are that air conditioning isn’t a particularly bad technology in any way.

    Sure, of course, air conditioners have environmental impacts, that’s obvious - but so does building solar panels or electric cars.

    Inverter heat pumps are one of the obvious solutions to mitigate climate change because they’re much, much more efficient than other forms of heating and cooling, we should be pushing for them to become common in Europe, not jumping on some bandwagon we don’t really understand because traditionally Europe hasn’t been hot enough to need it.

    • Obi@sopuli.xyz
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      4 months ago

      Yeah I don’t think we disagree at all! I’m just sharing the facts around the realities of it. Also I don’t think most AC is replacing heating systems today, but rather are installed in addition to the existing heating system. When you remove your furnace and have only inverter pump for both heating and cooling indeed I think that’s a big improvement, but I’m no expert.