With a fan pointed directly at me, I don’t need AC when it’s 30 degrees inside. A fan per employee would be more efficient than AC, and the world is literally on fire due to our energy consumption.
Even worse than people who just have the AC on when it’s not needed (and OK, not everyone is as tolerant to warm temperatures as I am - though I note that I always thought I felt the heat more than most, until I lived in a warm flat and just got used to it) is people who insist on sticking to an extremely low AC temperature.
Everyone can deal with an indoor temperature of 25C, that’s literally unproblematic. If you set your AC to below 25 for more than a few days, it’s not even for comfort, it’s because of ignorance or obstinacy.
When you’re used to lower temperatures, it is. Especially indoors where the air can get stuffy pretty quickly depending on room size and number of people.
For me it is and I’m an underweight woman not in menopause. I’m probably an outlier, but I have to imagine if you changed any of those factors, it would be far worse.
This might surprise you but people’s perception of temperature varies wildly. 25 degrees for me is fine without clothing, but that’s not really an option in the office. I’ll survive, but it noticably drains my energy and impairs my ability to work.
Conversely I could say anyone should be fine with 15C inside during winter, but a lot of people would disagree with that too I’d imagine.
I think the vast majority of those people would adapt to 25 degrees (with light clothing!) with enough time. Why? Because until recently, air conditioning didn’t exist, yet people all over the world still managed to work through most of the day. Some cultures pause work during the hottest part of the day, but that won’t avoid temperatures over 25 degrees in a great many places where temperatures into the 30s are common. Likewise some people would suffer, but I think if those temperatures were genuinely unpleasant for a large part of the population with the available technology, you would see it.
A big factor in my opinion here though is that I used to think similarly, until I spent a hot summer in a warm flat and am now perfectly comfortable at 29 degrees, given a week or two to adjust up to that point. So given that I would have said the same thing 10 years ago, I find it difficult to believe you now without something more.
I have spent every single one of the past 10 summers in a room that did not dip below 25C for a second over those months. Most of the time closer to 30. I still want to die at 25.
My heat sensitivity is definitely abnormal, but I still have to work just like everyone else. Though even our office with barely existent AC is cooler than my apartment at least. What’s worse is that the office sometimes gets to 23C in winter which has lead to me wearing shorts whenever it’s above 5C outside, because otherwise I suffer in the office.
With a fan pointed directly at me, I don’t need AC when it’s 30 degrees inside. A fan per employee would be more efficient than AC, and the world is literally on fire due to our energy consumption.
Even worse than people who just have the AC on when it’s not needed (and OK, not everyone is as tolerant to warm temperatures as I am - though I note that I always thought I felt the heat more than most, until I lived in a warm flat and just got used to it) is people who insist on sticking to an extremely low AC temperature.
Everyone can deal with an indoor temperature of 25C, that’s literally unproblematic. If you set your AC to below 25 for more than a few days, it’s not even for comfort, it’s because of ignorance or obstinacy.
Hahahahaha, what? 25°C indoors is hellish.
4 degrees above standard room temperature is hellish?
When you’re used to lower temperatures, it is. Especially indoors where the air can get stuffy pretty quickly depending on room size and number of people.
For me it is and I’m an underweight woman not in menopause. I’m probably an outlier, but I have to imagine if you changed any of those factors, it would be far worse.
This might surprise you but people’s perception of temperature varies wildly. 25 degrees for me is fine without clothing, but that’s not really an option in the office. I’ll survive, but it noticably drains my energy and impairs my ability to work.
Conversely I could say anyone should be fine with 15C inside during winter, but a lot of people would disagree with that too I’d imagine.
I think the vast majority of those people would adapt to 25 degrees (with light clothing!) with enough time. Why? Because until recently, air conditioning didn’t exist, yet people all over the world still managed to work through most of the day. Some cultures pause work during the hottest part of the day, but that won’t avoid temperatures over 25 degrees in a great many places where temperatures into the 30s are common. Likewise some people would suffer, but I think if those temperatures were genuinely unpleasant for a large part of the population with the available technology, you would see it.
A big factor in my opinion here though is that I used to think similarly, until I spent a hot summer in a warm flat and am now perfectly comfortable at 29 degrees, given a week or two to adjust up to that point. So given that I would have said the same thing 10 years ago, I find it difficult to believe you now without something more.
I have spent every single one of the past 10 summers in a room that did not dip below 25C for a second over those months. Most of the time closer to 30. I still want to die at 25.
My heat sensitivity is definitely abnormal, but I still have to work just like everyone else. Though even our office with barely existent AC is cooler than my apartment at least. What’s worse is that the office sometimes gets to 23C in winter which has lead to me wearing shorts whenever it’s above 5C outside, because otherwise I suffer in the office.
fair enough