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Like an engineer told me recently, the image of AC is biased in most of us towards the electricity-sucking devices of the previous century. Contemporary AC tech is to 1980s-90s AC what LED lightbulbs are to incandescent ones.
Moreover, the very same units are often also super efficient heating devices that embarrass their gas/oil burning counterparts.
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We in EU also have AC, what's the difference?
I wish we did in Sweden.
It's fairly rare in family homes.
You can't buy a window unit? I literally don't get this...explain how you can't go to a hardware store in your country and buy an air conditioner or order one online
The northern most states in the USA also have the same arrangement. It's (historically) in a cooler climate, where a "heatwave" is anything above 80F, so just open your windows if it's stuffy indoors. Combine that with fossil-fuel heating, and heat-pumps just aren't a thing.
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Most of my friends in Germany and UK do not have AC, or have such undersized units for their homes it barely makes a difference. Or they don't want to run it because energy costs to utilize it during the day are ridiculous.
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