Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Why Europe Faces An Air Conditioning Problem After Its Red-Hot Summer" video.

  1. I think the real problem isn't heating or air con but the way houses are designed, which for the most part, most houses are designed badly around the world. Take my house for example in the UK, in winter, the house is well insulated, so much so that we tend to only need heating on for about a day or two per year, the house seems to hold a lot of the heat inside but on the other side of the coin, in summer, it gets too hot upstairs, with a few changes and better design, this house could work so you rarely need heating in winter and don't need air con in summer if you block a lot of the heat from coming inside the house, some houses actually do this already, even in colder climates than the UK. If houses were better design, people could save a fortune on heating and cooling and live more comfortable indoors, so yeah we could invent better heating and cooling solutions, which we should, but what we should be doing is reducing the heat that comes into a house whiles trapping as much heat that's already in the house, that would work out better whiles using far less energy. It's also the same with energy use, you'll be surprised how much energy you can save whiles not changing your quality of life, I'll give you an example, over the last 15 years, we went out of our way to reduce our energy consumption, we managed to reduce it to about half of what we used, this is also whiles having more tech items in the house, our quality of living is actually better now than it was 15 years ago whiles using about half the electric and how we did it, we put more focus on the energy use of items we buy, after 15 or so years of replacing items around the house, you end up reducing your energy use a lot whiles still living the same and I have a feeling a lot of people around Europe are going to do the same so that as the energy crisis eases, they'll be better off by using less energy than they did before the crisis and as the saying goes, never let a crisis go to waste, this is one of those times to make real changes in Europe and for that matter, around the world. With that, there's only really 3 big items we can change now that will have a decent impact on lowering our energy and that's the boiler, the oven and the fridge freezer which now there are much better ones around, there are other small things we could change but it will have little impact overall, the only other thing we could do is solar panels which we've not jumped on yet.
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