• geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPM
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    8 days ago

    There’s plenty of ways to achieve clean renewable energy to run an AC. The billionaire class has just chosen not to, like you said, in favor of fossil fuels. The fact that these AC’s are needed more around the world is because of the fossil fuels to begin with.

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      8 days ago

      Absolutely. Especially since we went away from nasty ozone destroying coolants and went with things like R134A, R32 and now even R290. My own AC is powered mostly by the solar panels on my roof. With the heatwave it’s been running at night as well and I don’t have any local power storage. My energy provider is “green”, but I suspect that’s not 100% renewable.

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      8 days ago

      That’s the point. They just keep it expensive and inefficient, climate gets worse and they can sell even more.