How to Survive This Heat
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🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Air-conditioning can feel like the only way to get through increasingly hot summers, but it’s an expensive, power-hungry way to keep cool.
How necessary is it? And how necessary is it to raise our thermostats up from 72 degrees?
Guest: Adam Clark Estes, senior technology correspondent at Vox.
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