US EditionEquipped with Air Conditioning: Good or Bad Idea?
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As France crumbles under heat, with mercury climbing in some places to more than 40 degrees, the temptation is great to put air conditioning. A cooling solution that does not win the support of the minister of ecological transition.
To adapt to the heat waves that are likely to become more frequent, will air conditioning become the rule? In the United States and Japan, nine out of ten dwellings are air-conditioned. In France, 25% of dwellings are equipped more or less efficiently, according to a study by the Environment Agency of 2020. To cool down, how much does air conditioning really cost? How much does it consume? What are its effects on the environment? (Environment).
A quarter of French households are equipped with an air-conditioning system, a share of which has increased sharply in recent years, but which remains very far from the rates of equipment in the United States or Asia. At the global level, air-conditioning produces about as much greenhouse gas emissions as air transport.
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