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UK needs to urgently install air conditioning in schools and care homes, climate campaigners say (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Veserr@sh.itjust.works to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 12 points 2 weeks ago

Disingenuous headline which implies climate campaigners are for the use of energy intensive means of climate control in summer instead of opening some windows.

UK needs to urgently install solar panels which could be used to power air conditioning in schools and care homes, climate campaigners say.

Would be a more accurate description of their stance. Which is far more reasonable than the original headline suggests.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

...along with solar panels... right? So many schools with flat roofs, and bundling solar with AC only makes sense.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Install heat pumps FFS!

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 2 weeks ago

Well it is quite hot today but it'll cool down

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip -4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Italy never had air conditioning in schools, LOL!

[–] brewery@feddit.uk 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They have buildings and infrastructure designed with the weather in mind though, with generations of knowledge used to make it suitable before AC was a thing, for instance external blinds everywhere, orientation of the building to the sun/winds. Our schools were built to retain heat as much as possible

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip -1 points 2 weeks ago

What you say is partly true, but Italian summers are still way too hot. But our only option was to suffer it.

[–] yuumei@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Genuinely interested: do you have external shutters or awnings on buildings like schools in Italy? I have to pay £500 to a council planning department to get them approved to be installed. (Which is utterly ridiculous)

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What about internal shutters?

[–] yuumei@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

Sure but they don't work as-well because the energy has already penetrated the glass and now needs to traverse the glass again to escape, better than nothing but not as good as external shutters

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

Sometimes shutters, sometimes Venetian blinds.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

And they’re now on Round 2 of Fascism. Maybe their brains fried in the classrooms.