silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 4 days agoAs heat soars, the Southwest ditches ‘swamp coolers’ for air conditioning | Highly efficient evaporative coolers used in dry Western states for decades, but being replaced as temperatures risewww.washingtonpost.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up144arrow-down1external-linkAs heat soars, the Southwest ditches ‘swamp coolers’ for air conditioning | Highly efficient evaporative coolers used in dry Western states for decades, but being replaced as temperatures risewww.washingtonpost.comsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square11fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarepressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up23·4 days agoGrowing up in the desert, swamp coolers can only do so much and only if the air is dry. When it hits 128 in the summer, the 20 degree drop isn’t refreshing. If the humidity is high, it can’t do squat.
minus-squareDogyote@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·4 days agoYou should probably move out of death valley.
minus-squarewomjunru@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·4 days agoLived in AZ. Fuck swamp coolers.
Growing up in the desert, swamp coolers can only do so much and only if the air is dry. When it hits 128 in the summer, the 20 degree drop isn’t refreshing. If the humidity is high, it can’t do squat.
You should probably move out of death valley.
Lived in AZ. Fuck swamp coolers.
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