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“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?” I try to bridge worlds - life, sustainability and climate change




✍️ New article: Billions of people have access to far less electricity per day than is required to run an air conditioner for just one hour. For five months of the year, temperatures in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, climb above 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit). These temperatures are punishing for anyone, but particularly here, where air conditioning (AC) cannot offer any relief. While people in richer parts of the world can switch on their ACs, for billions in energy-poor countries, there is little electricity available to power a fan or an air conditioner. We can see this by comparing how much electricity people use at home on a typical day with how much power an air conditioner requires. Let’s consider a typical single-room air conditioner that uses around 1,000 watt-hours of electricity in an hour. In at least 45 countries, the average residential electricity use per person for an entire day is less than the electricity that is required to power an air conditioner for one hour. In the chart, you can see for how long the average person could run an air conditioner across a selection of these countries. In India, the daily electricity budget is sufficient for only 44 minutes of AC. In Nigeria, just 13 minutes; and in South Sudan, just 4.4.










World's first commercial multi-lateral closed loop geothermal combined heat and power plant is now operating: linkedin.com/posts/eavor_ge…






















