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Every new home should have air conditioning, say Liberal Democrats

Every new home should have air conditioning, say Liberal DemocratsExclusive: Party says UK housing stock is ‘woefully unprepared’ for extreme heat and government must set new rules for builders All new UK homes should be built with air conditioning to cope with the effects of the climate crisis, according to the Liberal Democrats. The party says that British homes are dangerously unsuited to rising temperatures, meaning passive cooling measures such as planting more trees in residential areas are necessary. Continue reading...www.theguardian.com

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Bright water

26 июл., 20:28

Silly idea with no consideration to how much energy they use. A house can be designed and built to be cool and warm in the winter using insulation, thermal mass and mechanical ventilation and heat recovery. Even an old house can be like that, I converted a 1860 house which achieves that

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Captain Cabbage

27 июл., 03:36

Yes but considering how bad heatwaves are becoming and that it will only get worse, your assumption might not hold in the future

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Bright water

27 июл., 13:45

It's not an assumption, new house building can adapt to extreme heat without expensive to run air conditioning. I have stayed in a house in Qatar which was cool by using traditional down draft vents without an air conditioner in sight.

Sue C55

26 июл., 21:04

Air-to-air heat pumps - warm in winter, cool in summer!

Frank Biggs

26 июл., 22:09

and a downstars loo and a walk in bath tub.

Sir_LANs-a-lot

26 июл., 20:23

They should also have solar panels and heat pumps.

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Sustainable Us

27 июл., 00:14

They only need heat pumps, not as well as.

Govert Schipper

26 июл., 20:35

Plant some trees.

Alif Yaa

27 июл., 01:48

This goes against the Republican mantra of “survival of the fittest”. There’s no way they’ll permit everyone to have air conditioning. They want everyone to earn that right! #SadButTrue

Blue_Riverrrr

26 июл., 20:21

Europe lost 200,000 people to heat in 4 years - yet nearly all of them were preventable www.who.int/europe/news/...

Statement – Europe lost 200 000 people to heat in 4 years yet nearly all of them were preventableGood morning. The impacts of climate change are a clear and present danger, and its most immediate and lethal manifestation is extreme heat. Heatwaves are no longer freak weather anomalies. They are n...www.who.int

Sustainable Us

27 июл., 00:20

Daikin X Series and the Samsung EHS Quint do air con, heating, hot water in one system. The EHS Quint also recovers heat. The media and politicians are at least months out of date in knowledge, more likely years.

elliethemole

27 июл., 00:06

It would be much cheaper and more efficient to force every house to be built to passivhaus standards.

PhilT602

26 июл., 20:39

FFS!?! You're own article does not even say that, let alone the Lib Dems!! The article says that key public buildings need Air Con, not homes! Homes need to be better prepared, with natural shading, better insulation & likely heat pumps!! Sticking air con in all buildings would make things worse!!