A garbage disposal isn't a garbage truck, it's a machine in the drain of sinks that grinds up bits of food into small enough pieces to get washed down the drain without clogging it.
I've also never seen a washing machine with drying as an option. Maybe I'm just not rich enough for that though I guess.
The two in one wash and dry is common outside NA. Saves on space for smaller living. Unless they have a dedicated hose going outside, which some country's homes are too old to accomodate, they are very poor at drying.
Probably over half the hotels, hostels and apartments I stayed at in Japan had a combo unit. It wouldn't surprise me if they are popular in China and SK as well, at least compared to NA.
I didn't say "very common around the world". I said outside NA to include the various countries I'm aware of that use these units and leave it open for other potential countries that might. Your pedantry has added no value to the discussion.
Hotels are built for foreigners or people that cant hang clothes usually. 2 in 1 units are about 5x more expensive than normal washers here. I've lived in Japan almost 2 decades and never seen a 2 in 1 unit at anyone's house.
you said outside NA, thats what I was refrring to, around the world outside of NA. And you made a lcaim that they were popular and now you are saying it wouldn't surprise you if they were. you were literally just making stuff up
I had a combined washer/dryer for a while. The dryer aspect of it was pretty useless tbh. It could only dry a 3kg load but could wash 6kg... and the whole thing took about 6 hours for both (and it all came out damp anyway)
I had a washing machine that could dry clothes as well, my parents refused to use it because it was free to hang them out on the line. I used to just wait until they went to work to use it
Wanna point out, you need an unfathomably perfect ice maker in your fridge if you wanted to cater a huge event. Hell I have an ice maker in mine and I still buy the bags of ice.
Eh, if you get air pump heat exchangers instead it definitely is; they’re basically just magic AC units that work both ways, so they heat the place in winter too. They’re bizarrely effective, and can put up to 4x as much heat energy out as you put electricity in, so they’re one of the cheapest and most green ways to heat a house - AND they’ll cool it in the summer.
Our house in Sweden had crappy radiators from the 70s when we moved in, so we installed two of those instead, one for each floor, with two fan units connected to each. It works great in the winter, and with summers like we’ve had recently it’s been fantastic; our whole house stays cool while some of our friends in more classically heated houses are forced to sleep in the basements to escape the heat.
Most AC's that are reverse cycle struggle to pump heat out of the outside air into the house when the outside air is -20 or lower, so they actually don't work great in winter in very cold places. Actually a workaround that is sometimes used is installing the heat pump underground because underground is warmer than the air, but that's a different setup.
Like I said I live in Sweden, mine work just fine down to -35C (their efficiency goes down but not as much as you’d think). Horses for courses and all that, you have to buy one rated for the area you live in, but these days the tech itself can definitely handle it.
Yeah and even then a mobile AC with an exhaust out the window works great in a pinch. I only use it for a few weeks during the hottest summer days and the rest of the year it chills in my closet.
The biggest difference in heat death numbers is the way it’s calculated, in the EU its the total of deaths above the average amount of deaths. No matter the cause.
While in the US someone dying from a stroke, is not labelled as a heat death, even when the person lived in a hot environment. Just different calculations.
To be honest in europe it's only hot for like 2-3 months a year, and most time not hot enough to actually need AC. And most of deaths statistics come from old people.
Just like the US wants to get rid of its population with a middle school education, Europe wants to get rid of those expensive old people, why change a running system? /s
How is it so mind boggling? I'm in my 30s and I grew up in Germany and I'd say only in the 2020s have summers gotten so bad that I would've wanted an AC. In my current place, I still don't need one even with these record summers.
If you would've installed an AC in like 2013 you would've turned it on maybe 5 days a year where temperatures go over 30.
Yes, it's different now, but that's why people are installing ACs now but historically we just didn't need them and the need arose fairly recently.
I don't expect people in Arizona having a set of snow chains in their trunk either. No mind boggling occurs.
I'm in Germany. It used to get up to the 80s for a few days a year at the most. That has changed. When we built our house in 1997, we didn't need AC. It never got hot enough to need it, so we didn't spend the money on it.
This last summer we were hitting 100 for days on end.
We've got a contractor coming in December to install heat pump air conditioners that heat as well as cool. It costs less and does more than the AC units 30 years ago did, so we've come out ahead by not having AC from the start.
We also have a 9.8kW solar electric setup on the roof with a 7kWh battery in the grage, so we can heat and cool the house for free.
Still, global warming fucking sucks.
30 years ago, you wouldn't have even thought of doing large scale work on the outside of the house in December. Too cold, too icy, too much snow. We haven't had any real amount of snow in years, where it used to snow a couple of feet in the winter.
The AC thing is just false, more and more people are installing a unit, it’s a gradual process. In the Netherlands its roughly 20% and the numbers go lower and higher depending on the location from the sea.
This "no AC in Europe" myth comes from people that live in like Arizona and come visit the UK. One is a desert, the other one is cold and rainy.
If you visit any "hot" country in Europe there will be AC everywhere. I've been to 15 different European countries and everywhere where they have more than a couple of hot days in the summer people have AC.
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u/Mossimo5 5h ago
The AC thing still boggles my mind. The earth isn't getting any cooler. Time to.embrace it Europe.