Air Conditioning For Home – How Much Longer Can We Go On?
Summer is here and boy it’s hot and will get even hotter yet ! Just think about this before turn up up the A/C , here are some chilling facts about the influence your air conditioning unit has on our environment.
It’s like night follows day the sun rises and your A/C is turned on like clockwork. Summertime arrives, and the air conditioning for home is turned on in almost all American homes and workplaces. It is time for us to look at making our own homemade solar panels, to take some of the strain off the grid, before things get from bad to worse
We no longer live with the heat, its now come to the stage where we have come to be unwilling to tolerate it. We seem to want it to be cold, how many times do you enter a restaurant, office, store or shopping mall and regardless of the temperature outside you actually feel cold when you get inside ! Why? Cool is good but cold is absolutely stupid !
Meanwhile, outside, the planet’s getting hotter. This is something we would rather we were not reminded of, but the planet is well into a collision course between air conditioning and the environment. We now spend far more energy on cooling and heating than the rest of the world put together but events are starting get even worse as other regions particularly – India, China – where they have just started to crank up their A/C. A lot of home owners in emerging countries have their own renewable energy systems attached to their homes .
Currently in Nort America we consume, and therefore have to generate more electricity just for cooling and heating the environment we live and work in, than the African sub-continent consumes for all its entire needs annually.
Well then you say, make the air conditioning for homes more efficient! The chilling fact is that in the last two decades A/C units have increased their efficiency by approx. twenty five percent , well there you are then, you reply. BUT the other side of the coin is that we currently use 36% more energy for air conditioning than we did 2 decades ago. WHAT? As A/C systems got to be of greater efficiency and so cheaper to operate, what did we do we turned down the thermostat a couple of degrees, this combined with the fact that a much higher proportion homes have Air Conditioning systems, adds up to the 36% increase in the consumption of electricity just for cooling!
So to put all the facts together, we now have an increase number homes with more Air Conditioning systems. In the last twenty years we have had the hottest seven years ever recorded, with another set of high temperatures predicted for this year, so we are going to need record quantities of electrical power to keep us cool. Increased electricity used = more electricity generated, using carbon based fuels = more pollution from the CO2 emitted = more Global warming = more heat = more A/C = etc. etc. I’m sure you see where this is heading!
It is not all entirely our fault the modern houses we buy are not constructed to reflect the regional variations, the same style of home is being constructed in New England as is Arizona, with 2 entirely divergent yearly weather patterns. This has been made doable by the use of Air Conditioning to the elimination of all architectural plans that could have helped to keep our houses a cooler and/or warmer using natural design tecniques.
It could shortly come to the point,in the not to distant future, where we will end up having power shortages if we continue to build air conditioning for homes rather design homes that are designed use less AC .
Firstly Look up my articles on more efficient use of electricity, which will help to make your house more energy and heat efficient.
Secondly make use of natures own cooling agents – plants and trees, trees round you house to give some shade, plants than cover walls to absorb some of the suns direct heat, plants on window sills will help absorb some of the heat entering though windows.
Thirdly get some air flow through the house shade you windows then open them, use ceiling fans they are very cheap to run and will lower the heat by around 4 degrees.
Now is a great time to consider putting in your own DIY residential photovoltaic solar panels, not only to combat the possible power shortages, but also to allow you some relief from the rising cost of commercial electricity. There are some very good online guides that show you in step by step stages how to do it all.
Prepare for the future before air conditioning for homes comes to rule our daily life. Make your home more energy/heat efficient and give serious consideration to building you own DIY solar system.
