There are examples of exceptional heatwaves like the one you're thinking about. The article is about testing people under controlled conditions to figure out exactly where the point that things go from 'healthy adults will be fine' to 'not just the sick, pregnant, young, and elderly suffer, but huge chunks of the population die'
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Wealthy countries see really expensive damage too.
They don't depend on the WMO to quantify it though
What's happened is that commercially available heat pumps move about 3-4 units of heat for each one they consume, making them financially viable despite a higher upfront cost.
Photovoltaic cells plus a heat pump hot water heater is more cost effective than a solar thermal one at this point
Yep. This kind of behavior is an inherent consequence of for-profit institutions.
The not-for-profit ones aren't much better in that regard; a lot of them are run as de-facto profit centers for religious denominations.
I think they're more trying to explain why it resonates with so many people.
4.2 is tiny; other platforms are getting hundreds of thousands per day.
It's small enough that the Mastodon use stats show it as noise.
I've seen the follow-around thing a couple times. Rare because we're small. Become big, and it becomes a bigger problem
People can follow from a Mastodon instance and drop troll comments on all your posts
What it has going for it is a nuclear block; when you block somebody, their trollish response no longer shows up in the feed of your followers, and your post no longer shows up in feed of their followers. This basically kills trolling as as sport.
The fact that on Mastodon & Lemmy "block" means "I can't see their posts, but they can still summon followers to harass" makes them much less attractive as a platform.
He made the claim during the campaign...and it was utter BS as you describe
Yes, heat pumps are really common in new EVs, but I'm not sure if it's most worldwide or not.
Your idea about thermal storage is interesting; I'm very much unclear on whether it would make sense to do that or simply have a bigger battery or some amount of insulation on the passenger compartment.