Spain making changes (and i complain about AC)

[ideath]

"Spain has seen the future and it is slow, dim and uncomfortable." (The IndependentThey're heavily dependent on imported energy and taking a beating over it. The canary in the Western European coalmine, they know it's time to act. So Spain now has 50mph (80kph) speed limits, and among other measures has decreed that "air conditioning systems in

Comments

[qousqous]

Ugh, in places like Minnesota where they have hot summers and very cold winters, they seem to heat to 26 in the winter and air condition to 21 (if not 19 or 20) in the summer. So whenever you go inside in the summer, you're freezing, and whenever you go inside in the winter, you have to strip off three layers and you're still hot.

[qousqous]

where 21 roughly equals 70, 20 68, and 19 66.

[esmesquall]

You also just described my father's house.

[conform]

Japan in the winter was massively overheated everywhere. Can't speak for summers.

[enth]

i'm not sure i understand the point of siestas in the context of energy conservation. wouldn't a gap taken out of the afternoon extend working hours well into darkness, thereby causing businesses to run more lighting and keep hvac working at peak for longer? obviously i am missing something.

... and i won't even get into people driving their commute both ways for whatever reason during the gap. which some would do, almost certainly.

[akatchoom]

Shorter work days.

That's efficiency.

[glowing_fish]

AUSTERITY IS PLEASURE

What is this, the motto of you people's "MiniFree"? You won't trap me with your Orwellian logic. Especially because if global warming is caused by the carbon, why are the Martian polar ice caps melting?