It's also the heat-problem equivalent of the Microsoft "you're in a helicopter" joke except in this case the punchline is "use A/C". You can't just magic that into existence across an entire continent of ~700M people that have never needed anything like it until now and that includes huge numbers of houses hundreds of years old with thick stone walls that you can't just punch a cable or duct through even if you had the hundreds of millions of units available to install. Sure, we can kludge around the heat problem a bit if it starts raining (or snowing) A/C units and they magically get installed in every house, shop, factory, and transport system. And while we're at it, let's magic an EV into every garage and a pony into every kids backyard. Anything else?
That’s very fair and your are absolutely right that it will be very difficult to retrofit old homes. Do you think newer office buildings and schools would be a good place to start?
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[ 0.20 ms ] story [ 20.6 ms ] thread> This post is adapted from an opinion piece in the Dutch newspaper Volkskrant, as well as an English translation in Quillette.