Mechanical refrigeration has been found in advance of the wants of the country.
See {44386} for the public opinion that doomed the invention.
Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.
Well, air-conditioning is not a good thing.
All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.
Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.
But it was only hot outside, and generally I only walked outside between one air-conditioned place to another.
The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
They're trying to put data centers in cold environments because they're actually generating so much heat now; they're using up so much electricity.
As heat rises, so does the number of people trying to cool down homes, schools, hospitals and businesses. This isn't just about comfort; it's a matter of public health.
I'm one of the best condensers in the business.
I couldn't use Nest because it doesn't operate with high-end HVAC systems.