If every disaster contains opportunities, what are they here?
The obvious thing would be investing in green technology, but what else? Are HVAC equipment producers about to see a big uptick in sales?
The obvious thing would be investing in green technology, but what else? Are HVAC equipment producers about to see a big uptick in sales?
Warsaw is today 27C, Minsk 21C, Smolensk 18C, Moscow 22C. So not entire Europe is baking in heatwave only the Western part.
The same circulation is heating Western Europe and cooling Eastern Europe.
This is really terrifying. Google ‚Methans craters‘...
It would often only have been really impactful for one or two weeks a year. Not really worth the investment.
With temperatures climbing this high, and being maintained for longer periods, I recently bought my first mobile AC unit and am thinking about installing a permanent one after the summer.
1. Set up AC company in Europe
2. Wait for panicked calls from sweltering people
3. Profit!!
Having lived in south France, where temperature was always over 30C in summer for long period of time. There simply wasn't air conditioning in homes or offices. It's not that it isn't needed. It's just not there. If you want to change job to an office job with AC, good luck finding one.
You're just burning down in summer? being completely unproductive at work? People just live with it. Dress in short tshirt and drink a lot of water. There can be 50 employees asking to get a AC unit for the floor, doesn't matter, management is just nope.
It's evolving slowly as new office constructions have air conditioning and it's being retrofitted to some places.
I don't have AC at home in the Bay Area -- when it gets hot I just go to a public air-conditioned space for the day.
It's not exactly irony; these vicious feedback loops are a big part of what has gotten us into this mess.
This is a serious opportunity for mankind to learn from its mistakes and become a sustainable society. Let's hope it doesn't take more than 100 years and half the population to do so.