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House too hot? Energy bill already too high? This UK professor says smearing yogurt on your windows can cool your home (www.yahoo.com)

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Well... it beats eating it, I suppose!

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[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Don't know where you are, but I'm in Melbourne, and we have plenty of AC for cooling. What we are lacking though is a proper summer where it's worth turning that on.

[–] ishartdoritos@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago

Yes, and now on google maps, I can see that a lot of houses have solar panels. It was not the case when I grew up in Queensland 40+ degree heat, in a house made of plywood and fly screens in Nerang and the coolest place around was Pac Fair.