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How to Dress and Undress your Home | To make buildings more energy-efficient, consider curtains, awnings, wall hangings, and other textile insulation technologies from a time before air conditioning (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

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Appropriate technology in action. And as a bonus, textile insulation could use material from all those fast fashion clothes dumped in the desert or otherwise abandoned to dissolve into microplastics :/

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

While the billionaires have AC on private jets, we have those shitty euro bakery curtains. Great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

You are free to have AC as well, if you think that's a sensible solution. No need to be a billionaire.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fun fact, adding textiles to walls for insulation is where we get the term "furring" from.

I wish awnings were more common. Such a simple way to block out midday or afternoon sun in the hot summer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Technology Connections feels similarly!