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So we are near the limits of human heat tolerance and the solution is less AC? Does lowering quality of life actually help increase quality of life?

The simple solution is to build more nuclear. When energy generation doesn’t require burning things, this solves itself. A carbon neutral grid means we can use as much air conditioning as we want. I was in Rome and France last week and “less AC” would have meant vulnerable people potentially dying in the heat.



Is that actually true? How much of the impact of AC is power generation vs the inefficiency of refrigeration?




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