Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "American Reacts to Housing differences New Zealand vs USA" video.

  1. NZ has a very ocean moderated climate, while mostly more southerly than even Tasmania. But recalling hot is not like in Australia where hot in southern parts is mainly northerly wind driven from inland, desert paths, or climate in more northerly part to far north in the tropics. NZ has little land area to really build heat and prevailing winds are mostly off ocean and thus very moderated. While parts are cold enough for snow, and the ocean is open down to Antartica, the winds still keep conditions moderated compared to northern US states and Canada. Most people live in comparative milder condition at both hot and cold extremes.
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  2. Heating/cooling the entire house is extremely wasteful, energy consuming and polluting. Better to only heat and cool actually occupied sections of the home. Normally that would involve the living room, and in extreme weather bedroom's for part of the day like into the night. Other areas only in special needs arising occasionally. The home I live in, for past 62 years, has NEVER had A/C and the only permanent heating installed was a lounge room gas heater, with airflow fan. That however has been defective and not used for over 25 years. Now depending on season an electric heater-fan, or in hot summer a airfan unit. Other rooms can use smaller electric-fan heaters if needed and occupied. In hot summer for say 38°C nights a small fan or pedestal fan can be used in other areas. Unusually bedrooms rarely have heating used at all, and hot conditions a small personal fan, even only USB powered one is mostly used. Hot water is an ondemand flow through unit not storage hot water tank. It is amazing how low energy use is compared to more typical over heated/cooled homes our life has been. Comfort is improved acclimatising to prevailing conditions and dressing to suit the conditions. Means not expecting to sit in T shirt and shorts mid winter or rugged up in sweater or hoody for summer. Reasonable clothing for the conditions. Actually minimal indoor outdoor means only adding jackets for winter outdoors, and sun protection in summer going outside. Our winter at worst has frosty mornings, with 5°C to 15°C winter range for almost all days, with some warmer sunny days too. Summer tends mid 20°C to over 40°C , with short periods even remaining over 35°C overnight. So especially winter is not so extreme in the city.
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  3.  @goaway9977  certainly just as I wrote they are far more moderated with neither HOT nor DEEP COLD. The Northern US and Canada go far below zero, beyond -30°C, to temperatures NO parts of NZ ever experience. That however does nor mean it is not cold in NZ at times even summer. It is actually more likely to get cold any season than extremely hot. As anywhere there can be individual extremes, so it is possible for Norway Sweden for example near Arctic circle to have mid 30 °C on rare conditions just not at all common. UK this year had a rare lengthy time of for them extreme high temperatures that in many places including Australia, India, Africa and Middle East are regarded normal and not extreme.
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