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As Europe Sweats, Some Politicians Talk of Air-Conditioning, Not Climate Action (www.nytimes.com)
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Heat-related deaths and disruptions to daily life are forcing politicians to reckon, in different ways, with a rapidly warming planet.

Unfortunately, adaptation on its on isn't doable. It takes ending the use of fossil fuels, which are the main cause of the warming, to make adaptation affordable.

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[-] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Seasonal heat storage exists.

Basically a big water tank with very thick insulation which can store heat for six months. This is economical for multi-family units, becauses the relative amount of necessary insulation decreases with size (for a cube with 27 cubic meters volume, you need 54 square meters of insulation, for a cube with a volume of 125 cubic meters, 150 square meters).

What can store a hot medium can obviously also store a cold medium.

It is also much cheaper to store heat, than to store electricity.

Here is a description (in German) of applying the concept to a single-family home.

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