Keeping the windows open during the day? You rookies! Get up at five, when it's still cool outside. Keep every window open for an hour to let in fresh air. Close and barricade everything until it's nighttime!
keep the windows open from 22:00-04:00, make sure to cause good air circulation and build up an energy deficit. The moment you notice the temperature rise by a tenth of a degree, close everything, airlock if possible. once heat starts to keep through, start circulating basement air into higher rooms. The energy deficit in the basement should last until it cools down outside and be able to be built back up once nightime hits
European summer: - Watch drug addicts on bicycles - Go to the sea, and complain about everyone else going to the sea - Dress the house like Dracula lives there
@Steven Seagull During the day? Of course. Do you open them when it's cold outside? Same principle, you keep the warm air outside and keep all that cool air inside of your house until it is finally cooler outside. Though it is a bit more complicated because the air inside tends to have a higher humidity than outsides. A higher grade of humidity makes sweating harder and thus feels hotter so you need consider humidity and temperature both for the right time to open and close the windows. But in the end it's pretty simple and just a little math.
The German AC cycle: 1. Years of moderate summers. 2. One summer where it gets hot. 3. The German head of the household after a week: "This is too hot. Maybe I should get AC? I'll consider it next week. For now I'll just have a beer." 4. The weather cools to moderate the next week. 5. The German forgets all about getting AC.
Heatpumps, which can be used for AC as well, are actually more efficient for heating than the current gas-based heating used throughtout Europe. And you get the benefit of being able to use it as an AC during summer and be independant from Russian gas.
I went on a trip to Germany in high school and in the lead up to the trip they told us a previous trip ended up going during an unusually hot summer and one student from the US cane back to their host family's house to find the entire family casually relaxing in the living room wearing only their undergarments. The US student was not prepared for that.
I was dog sitting for this lady who’s landlords were German they came over the house to cut the grass the older lady started talking to me and out the blues she just took off her sweaty shirt and change into a new one in front of me and my son who was around 6 years old 🤣😂🤣 my son’s face was priceless when she saw the old lady just with her bra on .
At the BMW plant in South Carolina, the Germans in charge didn't want to install an air conditioning so they installed some other sort of cooling system that used water. Problem is, SC is hot and very humid. There was so much moisture in the building, it ended up doing tons of damage. To the walls, the carpets, even things like printers. An expensive mistake just because they didn't understand that Summers are different here.
There are some (crappy) passive cooling methods in Germany with chilled ceilings. Problem: They don't work below the dew point in hot and humid climates.
Yeah, it's weird. For some reason Europeans understand that the SW is hot & dry and that in Florida humidity rises with the heat. But when you try to explain that the whole east coast is like Florida in that humidity goes up with the heat... there's just no comprehension for some reason.
The American southeast is downright dangerously hot at times. There were quite a few times growing up I got mild heatstroke just from playing sports during the summer
Just coming back from my earlier comment. Today (hot & humid day in Bavaria, southern Germany) I've checked the condensate drain from my Daikin unit - it was dripping like a leaky faucet. Showing this to locals with hardly any clue about moisture, dew point and humidity amazes them. "Where is all that water coming from?" "It was in the air!" "This feels great inside - I need an AC as well!" By now I've installed 8 more units at friends places and suddenly they are absolutely convinced about the necessity of air conditioning. Bonus: Those units can reverse and heat in spring and autumn. A couple of PV panels do compensate the running costs. Germans and applied thermodynamics!
dont actually open the windows.... gotta keep that damn hot air outside and only open windows at night. and closing blinds as well helps a lot. no open windows, no sun shining in equals a cooler home 👍
I did that religiously and it does work but this year I couldn't be arsed and with a fan on you, it really doesn't make any damn difference, but you get fresh air and light all day.
@@Barnaclebeard depends on temps. sure, a simple fan works fine up to some point. but at 35°C? at that point the fan just blows hot air at you and for me personally, it doesn't help at all anymore.....
Some advice from Australia. 1) Don't open the windows unless it's cooler outside 2) Keep the curtains closed, don't let it get as warm in the first place 3) Get a pedestal fan and drape a wet towel or similar over the front
1+3 can create an indoor killer climate. High humidity prevents the body from beiing able to use sweat evaporation to cool down. It might be better if outside air is dry to open the windows instead and drink a lot of fluid.
Fun fact: The cheapest good solution is, and I'm not even fucking joking, buy one of those small scent sprayers, CLEAN IT FULLY. Then, fill it with cold water and when it gets hot, spray it around your room. Makes it so much nicer, since instead of dry heat where you can't breathe, this has moist and a bit cooler air.
@@andik70 That is only true if you are in a hot and humid region, like the NE of US or Canada or in a sub-tropical region. Otherwise, in regions with low or moderate relative humidity levels (say, RH below ~40%), you would need to evaporate a massive amount of water to start noticing a humidity increase in a hot day. That is why the trick of lowering the temperature by evaporating water is often a very effective solution.
To be fair the old houses build around 1900-1980 have such thick walls that it takes several days to heat up until then its quite cool. Unfortunatly you need lots of energy to heat them up when it starts to chill.
Bullshitze I am calling. I calls bulls shits. YEES I CALLED IT. 💩 In Europe we do not live in houses with 1.5 meters of pure bedrock for walls and ceiling. No. We don't. It gets hot when it is hot outside it gets cold when there is no AIR CONDITIONING in the winter.
As an owner of a house, build in 1976.....this is true....But IT takes a week till 10 days to cool of....AFTER a Heat wave .....Unfortunately the next Heat wave comes around ...!!!
I used to live in a building like that and the biggest problem was convincing people NOT to open windows in common areas. "But the breeze..." They didn't understand that all they're doing is letting in a 'breeze' of air (and often humidity) that's hotter than the ambient temperature inside the building... ruining everything. :(
The implication being that Germans don't take showers. I know this is a joke but even then there has to be some sort of cliche there and that is specifically one I have NEVER heard. 😂
This reminded me of the time when i had german friends visit south east asia and they were repulsed at how much AC we subject ourselves to (and why hanging out in malls are our past time) but by the 2nd day they were BEGGING to enter a mall or get in the car cuz the weather broke their tolerance standard 😂
Haha, I'm surprised they didn't understand the minute they stepped off the plane! It's a totally different kind of heat, and it doesn't just last a day or two.
@@micahphilson the worst part is the lack of empathy from people from cold climates, they get ANGRY at the idea of "Wasting energy" in AC, and they believe AC is a luxury and electricity should be charged full rate for it. meanwhile, they heat up their houses like crazy in winter, and demand cheap gas for "keeping warm". even in this video "YOU KNOW HOW MUCH ENERGY AC USES!!" yes, as if gas is not energy...
As someone from the equator, I was in Europe once and like, "I understand that you guys get hot weather only a few months a year, but at least put a ceiling fan for God sake."
This. Contrary to the depiction in this video, AC wasn't always ubiquitous in the US. I spent all of my youth in a largish (but dilapidated) house where we could SOMETIMES afford to cool exactly one room with a window unit, it was the ceiling and occasional box fans that saved you most of the time.
@@jmgonzales7701 heater for cold weather, yes. But fan? No. Knowing the ambient air is cool despite hot weather but there is no fan to make it enjoyable is just... Ugh. Also, I hated RER trains when I was in Paris because the lack of AC.
@@sam39410ify Well its because its mostly cold in Europe, in some parts of Europe it does not even get hot. I have been to spain and southern Italy, places in the meditterenean that people consider "hot". It was freezing and i had to wear a jacket, people looked at me weird, but then i remind them its cold for me.
I went to Germany in June and this was probably one of the biggest culture shocks. I didn't think anything of it when I booked the hotel because in the US it's not something we even consider. AC just is. My husband was sure pissed for awhile because he thought that I had somehow managed to book the only hotel in Germany without AC, until I did some research and realized it's just not common like in the US.
Actually it is common in hotels (but usually more in those run by international companies rather than your sweet little family run hotel in a rural town). Maybe my roasted mind just makes that up while I am sitting in my too hot room studying for exams.
Oh, and good luck finding public restrooms in Deutschland. Here in America I went to a barber shop and asked to use their restroom and they lead me to a backroom with their bathroom in it. In Germany you have to go and find a designated one that is outside normal businesses (such as in a mall or subway station). There are some restaurants that have bathrooms but while in the city it can be hard sometimes
In Europe they only need ac for like 2 months. In America its so unbearably hot for a good part of the year in some parts. Even in Colorado when it's 110 degrees your bitch ass better have some ac.
@@Kekmit That's a good way to get someone pissing on your building. Using the restroom isn't optional. Refusing to let someone use it is both cruel and stupid. It makes your business look worse and I mean I'm definitely not gonna order from a place that refused to let me use the restroom.
Hot weather in Europe _feels_ different from hot weather in other places. I've been living in France for the past eighteen years, but I grew up in Lebanon, where it's normal for New Year's Day to have temperatures of 25°C (77°F), and in the Summer the mercury can hit the upper 40s (over 110°F). That wasn't pleasant but it was tolerable. Here, in Paris, if the temperature goes above 30°C (86°F) it is absolute misery!
It feels even more different in Florida. It is totally unbearable here almost all year except for a couple months in 'winter'. In comparison to Canada, it's like a sauna.
My wife from Kenya says the same thing about being here in Washington state in America. A 40C day in Mombasa feels like a 28C day here. She never burns but she does here!
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Also in the Netherlands that can be a problem, due to air pressure.
I grew up in Germany and never even noticed the lack of AC. It rarely gets hot enough and the houses are built for it. Now I live in Texas . . . even with my AC on full blast, it gets hotter in my house than any German house I'd ever been in.
I mean... Germany is way further north than Texas. We're in the latitudes of a lot of middle-eastern countries here. Of course it's hotter. Also: Don't vote blue. If you're tempted to vote for idiots like Beto, GTFO. California will welcome you.
I lived for a year or so in a very cleverly designed passively cooled German house and it was incredible how little the temperature actually changed in hot weather. Also incredible how little heating it needed in the winter.
The trick is insulation! German houses are often very well insulated. That means you can cool the house down by opening windows for 30min early in the morning and the house stays cool for the rest of the day.
@@wtrbns yes, you're nothing special. In Argentina we also build exterior walls at least 30cm solid bricks. And houses still need AC in summer. Stop believing you don't need cooling because your houses are superior. They aren't. You "don't need" cooling because your climate is moderate. Get out your damn bubble for 5 minutes and see the world.
We had a German exchange student being hosted by a coworker. It only took him a couple of days in South Georgia summer with its high 90s and 80% humidity to change his stance on “extravagant” AC consumption. 😅
😂 Yeah Europeans have no concept of the American Southeast Summer. Germany has the same climate as Pennsylvania... Significantly more north than Georgia.
Well many houses in germany are acually build with stable and thick stone/brick walls, so that the heat is kept out in summer. Most flats I have lived in are totally fine without ac in summer. Plus as I remember summers here weren't that hot and dry until around 2015 . (Yes there was increase in temperature and everything before, but from my memory it was ok until then) The only time it gets really bad is when you live in the top floor apartement....
In Norway they get sold as heat pumps, and presented as an alternative to other ways of heating your house during winter. Working as an AC during summer is just a bonus.
This is even funnier while I'm sitting here, with my feet in a bucket of ice water with all the blinds closed. Also don't open the windows during the day, you'll only let hot air in. Keep them open during the night and put mosquito nets on, so you don't get unwelcome, blood-sucking visitors in the house. Cheers from southern Germany 👀 Edit: I've been kindly informed, that my "mosquito nets" are actually called screens.
@@DurzoBlunts oh yeah. Well, depending on where you live in Germany. I suppose you won't have as big a problem if you live in a big city or a little higher up, 800m over sea-level or something, but in more rural areas like where I live, you are guaranteed tons of mosquitos if there is even the tiniest puddle of still water anywhere around. It has also gotten worse since the winters aren't as cold as they used to be anymore cuz then the larvae will survive and pester you next year. It's... fun... Very fun indeed 😂
I lived in Hong Kong with AC. The humidity outside was often 99%. You would step outside the house and instantly be drenched in sweat. In Germany we have blinds inside and are sure to turn the slats so they reflect the light back out. The house is brick with adobe plaster (mud), the house is much cooler than normal houses as a result of the adobe.
Well it kinda sucks that it isnt that often used anymore in Germany. Everything is just made out of beton and glass nowadays. :( Which is terrible for such warm weather f*ck off. I hate brutalism and modern architecture!
That's the old bullshit lie Germans are telling "oh, our houses are massive, they stay cool". Dunno if nobody ever visited a physics class or if people just want to believe the lie because it's cheaper than buying AC, BUT IT'S A LIE. German houses stay cool for LONGER due to having massiv walls and isolation, but once they are warm they stay HOT LONGER DUE TO IT'S MASSIVE WALLS AND ISOLATION!!! THAT'S WHAY FCKING THERMO CANS KEEP COOL WATER COOL AND HOT WATER HOT!!!!!!!!!!! HOW IS THIS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND?????? Also summers in Germany are absolutely miserable, with way too much humidity and even way too hot nights, so you cannot cool down the house.
So is that the old style of building? I feel like the oldest buildings in Germany are the coolest and I never understood why, since many didn’t have upgraded, insulated windows etc. The oldest I’ve personally been in (it was a yarn and sewing shop!) had a year in the 1600’s stamped into the side and I thought it was amazing that a piece of history was still very much in use. In smaller villages I think I’ve seen a few from 1300 something? But I may be remembering incorrectly
We upgraded to a heat pump 8 or 10 years ago, and the electric bills plummeted. Works great to cool in summer and warm in winter (there is an electric furnace component that kicks in if it gets too cold in winter). Expensive at first, but I would bet we already made all our money back in savings.
@@armorer94 itll still work pretty well, the system is just big af so the footpring would be much bigger than the standard ac unit you would mount in your window.
@@armorer94 Google tells me there are "cold climate" heat pumps that work down to 5 degrees before the electric furnace part of the system has to kick in. We live in central Washington, and routinely get significantly below freezing in winter. The electric furnace "back up" kicks in somewhere around 25-35 degrees, but our system is not "cold climate" as far as I am aware. All I know is that we routinely had electric bills of $600+ a month during winter before the heat pump (we got it about 8 years ago), and now the absolute highest is $350, and that is usually only one month. The summer bills are cheaper also, but not as dramatically so. The system cost around 10k nearly 10 years ago, so it has already paid for itself and then some.
@@Vapourwear Well, I'm sure we broke even before THAT. The electric bills were several 100 dollars cheaper per month, 5 to 8 months a year. I didn't do the math, but I've very happy.
We close the windows all day if it's a hot day and the split seconds it's colder outside than inside we bust out all the fans and open all windows to cool everything off over night
Yeah...in Texas even without heat waves we are at 85+F for about 8 months. Our winters are about 1-2 months. And we really only have a week or two were we get ice or snow. For about 4 months of the year you will not find anywhere in Texas under 90f. And we have about 2 of those months where the majority of the state are 100+. So touch our AC and we will murder you. For sport.
@@ampac Yea, way colder summers now, at least here in Sweden.. It's July and it's going below 10 degrees celsius at night.... Rest of Europe might be different I guess
In Greece AC is part of our life the couple 2 decades, I believe you understand why :). So you do not challenging the EU lifestyle, more probably you are challenging the Germany only.
@@IzzyIkigai If you need AC for 5 days of the year, you are indeed not the target group. I feel unconfortable, when room temp hits more than 22 Celsius...so pretty much from April to November.
Actually don't open the windows during the day. Open them at night, so it can cool off and then close them during day time. Since we have properly insulated houses, they actually keep being cool for a long time. Only time it gets actually uncomfortably hot is if it doesn't cool below 20°C (68°F) at night.
European homes are typically built of high thermal mass materials like bricks or concrete, unlike the light construction materials usually found in the US. That means, on an occasional hot day, the inside of the home still stays cool enough not to need AC. Problems only arise with sustained heat waves, which are now unfortunately very common thanks to climate change - and then, the high thermal mass means you have to keep using AC for a few days even after a heat wave subsides.
Most of Brazil has a similar weather to most of the USA and we also make our homes out of bricks and concrete. You can make a cool house out of bricks. You just need to know how to vent it properly and window placement for maximizing sunlight during winter and minimizing during summer (as far North you go, the more difficult it is as there is less of a difference between summer and winter closer to the Equator). Our main problem on the general home still is proper isolation for winter. I live in a place it can easily get to -5ºC and the house can get really cold because our windows aren't hermetically closed so instead we wear winter clothing at home. Proper windows were too expensive back when we built my home, which means that now I have to suffer for AC being too expensive both during summer AND winter
@@DarthGTB there are methods to build houses out of brick and such that are good for winter but not for high temperature and humidity summers, which is what most of Europe has. Its just a different type of construction. The material choice itself is only significant if compared to the carboard us houses are built of usually Conversely these houses end up killing people in heatwaves because they retain heat very well as well as humidity when its hot, so people literally end up dying. Its estimated 1000 people died in the uk in the recent heat wave partially because of this
@@onawhim9079 and one Liter of the Common cooling Gas used in the ac Units is equivalent to 1088 tonns of co2. So when its Not proper installed and has yearly Service, wich can make it Start leaking its even more Bad for the Environment.
I used to live in New York. I have lived in California and I now live in Florida. AC is essential in all places because obviously. I’m ok spending a little extra to be comfortable because life is short.
Here in Chile: Winter: Not too cold to get central heating system, but too cold to survive without a domestic heater. Summer: not too hot to have an AC, but too hot to survive without a fan or windows open. What I personaly did for summers, is to put a roof outside all perimeter of my house and keeps my house cool.
As a fellow chilean, I agree, but central heating system is great specially if you need to shower early in the morning (it is a bit excessive most of the time). Me da cosa meter una estufa al baño y el piso queda calentito.
It's true that a lot of homes in Europe don't have A/Cs because historically summers are short and aren't that hot...though hey global warming is really making itself known this year. I mean 40 degrees C in London? Why not? 😭😭🥵😱 But yeah, when it does get a tad too warm, it's off to the shopping centers, the cinema, the supermarkets, public library etc.
Coming from an Asian country to study in Europe for my degree, I absolutely melted during the summer. My bedsheets were soaked with sweat and there were nights when I didn’t sleep a wink because it was just so damn uncomfortable and hot. It was absolute torture 😭
Nah it is not that bad. If you room has big widows heading toward the Sun, it can be tough. I usually just headed out and went to a cafe/park or something.
@@nehcooahnait7827 sure you can do that during the day but my comment is talking about when I’m trying to sleep. How am i supposed to head out to a cafe or park when I’m trying to rest? The nights are hot and humid and incredibly uncomfortable, especially since air conditioners or fans aren’t installed in my dorm rooms
@@mozxz Yes, a "few" Brits "sleep it off" on the beaches, in the late morning it is very funny: Slow moving, pain growling, human size walking red shrimps... very crispy!
As someone from Florida this would be literal suicide. Summer power outages here can cause death in same way winter ones can in cold places like the Germany.
It's also literal suicide in Germany a lot of the time too. The rate of death from heat there is much higher than it is in the U.S. So much so they usually have more yearly deaths from heat in Germany than the entire U.S. does.
The house we live in was built im 1650. I recently had to hide the electric heater, so my husband couldn’t use it when it was freaking 28 degrees celsius outside! Tells you everything you need to know about old houses.
I live in the US. My ancestors lived in an old farmhouse (150 years old) made of thick brick walls. This is in northern Wisconsin where it gets hot/humid in the summer. It was always quite comfortable
"Listen buddy this is how it's done in Europe okay, Europe has agreed that this is how it's done and it's good okay!" Honestly I'm rolling on the ground😂
Yes, EU signed a declaration for the shortcomings of energy sources due to the high consumption done by air conditioners. Hats off, they really do care.
The trick is to leave your windows and blinds open during late evenings and nighttime and to close your blinds during daytime and leave only the windows that are facing north ajar; occasionally opening a south facing window to create a draft. Your home will be a mere 5-10 degrees celsius cooler than the outside, depending on your building’s insulation.
@@calvinandhabs Yes the old people die but this is how it is done. We cannot admit the Americans may be right about something, thus the annual scarified of tens of thousands of old people must continue. They understand. -From Holland.
Im German and a few years ago we decided to also install an A/C in our house, it was the best decision ever! You don't know how much you need it until you have it
-Dieselgate -Tanks that are destroyed easily by Russian rudimentary weapons in Ukraine -Still using coal like is 1800's because Nuclear energy bad Again, why is Germany supposed to have good engineering?
HRV/ERV ventilation systems were invented in Europe. We don't need AC because it's already integrated into the ventilation system, it's just americans who bolt an inside out fridge onto their window like some barbarian.
I can attest that AC is quite the foreign concept to most Germans. However, when they are abroad somewhere that has AC they just tend to leave it running 24-7 on a ridiculous setting like 18 or 19 degrees Celsius, since I guess they think that's just what we do.
Well you shouldn't be surprised. We germans are efficient. If you give us AC we will use the whole AC. Just as we use the whole speedometer, I mean I paid for that.
Well Tbf (for the US atleast) doesnt seem that outlandish for a country where the most sold car is the F150, every moron can get AR-15s (and if not a friendly judge will copypasta the NRA ads) and a visit at the hospital might ruin you. Also: Phoenix, AZ and Las Vegas, NV.
A lot of EU residents simply don't grasp what >40c with 80% humidity does to a human body. Air conditioning becoming prevalent led to such a change in death rates for the very young, very old, and infirm that the entire insurance industry in the southeast had to redo their actuarial tables.
@ yeah, that definitely sounds like it would be more practical. I assume there are probabaly regulations on putting the larger units on older buildings.
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@@infin1ty850 Rarely. However, the portable units consume so much power compared to their effective performance, it makes you wonder, are we fighting global warming by producing more excess heat and CO2 lol
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Plus they suck practically. The exhaust air hose needs to go somewhere outside, usually through a cracked window. Those seals they sell to seal the crack suck pussy lips. Portable air conditioners are literally the last resort
@@mrcharles3061 Because we have long agreed that it is a crime against the environment and people claim they can't deal with the difference in temperature.
@@mrcharles3061 it isn't really worth it in Germany, we have Like 4-5 really hot days in Summer were its Like 35-40 degrees C° and the rest of the time its mostly between 20-30° with Rain every week, it really is a waste of money
@@JuMiKu It’s really not that bad these days lol. You can buy a little unit and plop it anywhere on/in your house. At least cool off one room every once in a while so it’s not like you’re wasting so much money and energy cooling a whole house/apartment, it’s worth it.
Here's few tips how to stay cool in summer in temperate regions : 1. Close windows during day and open then in the evening 2. Drink lots of water 3. Wear light colour clothes 4. Eat light food during the day 5. If you goin outside then carry an umbrella and sunglass In India we face lot of heat during summer. In Delhi this year recorded a maximum temperature of 42 degrees Celsius and above. This is happening mostly cause of Global Warming
To be fair the curent building code makes it so you don't really need to cool the building that much. Triple glazed windows, 15+cm of thermal insulation and the system of recirculated air makes it quite comfortable even in high heats. Even if you need to cool it down the system you use for heating also works to cool the place down and it uses much less energy then clasical AC. :)
The difference is that most European homes have insulation (apart from the UK 😆). During the last weeks and months with about 40°C outside, the temperatures inside my home "only" got up to 27°C. It was lovely!
Most American homes have very good insulation as well, it's just that most homes have good AC and heating to keep the home at the owner's optimal temperature no matter what the outside weather is. Seriously my home is 30 years old, yet the AC can get the temperature down to around 57 degrees (14 C) even when outside is 95 degrees (35 C). Although it's worth noting that home has central Hvac unit, and you can't just buy those off the shelf.
Greece is not really that much hotter in summer than France and southern Germany. We had 41 C last week unbearable without AC) and I experienced 49 C (and 39 at night) during a heat wave in North America where my American AC unit was barely able to cool down my apartment to 26 degrees.
Imagine if it were a Canadian instead of an American, he would be on fire. I drove a friend's BMW, but it's clear they made the cars for a German audience. The engine being in the back and drivetrain being rear-wheel powered was really bad in winter, whenever you'd stop the car in a snowy area you'd get stuck because you can't accelerate fast enough to get past snow in front of the front tires and because the car was so heavy in the back. Any roads you use has to be snowplowed perfectly otherwise you're stuck which is extremely hazardous, otherwise you'd need to make a route where you stop as little as possible. And it was so strange seeing the gas tank on the opposite side that I was normally accustomed to.
Our last trip to Europe was during a huge heat wave. Our first two days in Brussels it was 95° F and then 90+ while in Germany for the day. It was miserable. Unfortunately we didn't go into one until our last day but we found out that all the Belgian chocolate shops had AC. So the moral of the story is just hang out and eat lots of chocolate 😂
Actually opening the window makes it more hot. Just leave them open over night and then shut them over the day. If you don’t Love under a roof, it should be nice and cool.
I have yet to have a day when it was too hot in Germany that I felt like I needed an AC. With the strategic opening of windows, living in the semi-dark and the strategic use of a boxfan when it gets really bad. I never had problems. Most offices and public buildings use AC so you always have the choice to just leave your place when it gets too hot. It is also worse if you are not used to hot temperatures. Your body gets better at regulating temperature if you are exposed to it more. I personally always turn of ACs anywhere I go as I always get sick from them. When living in Texas I was carrying a jacket all summer to wear inside, people were so confused.
I'm sorry, I was visiting family in Germany and I just couldn't take the heat. Each night I got two ice packs and I slept on top of them. In the winter my Omi would try to get me to come back inside but it was so hot and snow felt so good! My body can handle the cold way more than the heat.
@@Wanderer24 I'm like you, I can take the cold easily, but the normal room temperature is the upper end of my comfort zone for long periods of time. Move the thermostat up even a couple degrees and suddenly I'm sweating. So of course I moved to South Carolina for a couple years now, hahaha. I hope to retire somewhere cold or moderate, like southern Canada, the northeast or northwest US, or like Scotland.
Very much this. I grew up in a house without air conditioning, and as such am very accustomed to drinking lots of water, regulating physical exertion and seeking shade on 100°f days. It was a real shock when I moved in with my boyfriend, who finds 78°f days stiflingly hot.
I’ve lived in Texas my whole life and yeah, over doing the AC is a major issue. I did childcare at this place where the workers were in Jackets and cardigans while the kids would just straight up bring blankets and constantly complain. Then it would randomly be hot for two days (I guess after the maintenance people changed it) before going back to being cold.
Fun fact: you in fact don't cool off by opening your windows during the day in summer. You're better off fearing the light and keeping everything closed.
@@KillingTime328us Then you have no difference of temperature inside your house and outside and are better off keeping them closed. This is basic physics. If you can open windows for contrary sides of your house there is going to be a draft.
did an exchange program for 2 weeks in Germany, the host family I was with put me in their attic room with a small box fan in one of Germany's worst heat waves in the past 25 years. still a good time tho but damn this is relatable lmao
No AC used to be fine in Germany before climate change hit. You could just barricade the place during the day and the thermal mass of the building would keep you cool-ish until the heat wave passed. But now it stays miserably hot for weeks at a time, so that thermal mass has time to heat up, at which point you're basically doomed.
Same in the Pacific Northwest. Installing AC would be silly 10 years ago. Now it's unbearable without it, and with shortages I'm getting quotes in the $22,000 to $30,000 range for crappy to nice units.
It doesn’t make much difference if it’s 34 or 36 degrees outside. And people in Italy and Spain also get along without AC. So it’s more your increased attention than climate change.
My Moroccan aunts are actually like this... I live in West Morocco where the weather isn't extremely hot but in East Morocco though (where my aunts/mom's sisters live) it is more than a 100 degrees Fahrenheit over there and they don't even mind the hot weather... they're used to it. And if we wanted to cool ourselves we have to go my uncle's room to turn on the AC. 😭😭😭 even opening windows is useless. And the worst thing is, my parents and I are going to visit my aunts next week... :( R.I.P.
Not only AC.. You wont find free Wi-fi in restaurants, 80% of restaurants do not accept card payment, bars get close early, income tax is between 44-47%. You are giving away half of your salary to government in order to get 1500€ when retired. Also country is behind other countries for its internet availability and speed
Income tax is between 14 and 45% I see free wifi in many restaurants, also why do u even need it? Go chat with your friends, coworkers, family or whatever. Not sure where u get the 80% from, the only places i can't use my card to pay for are small shops like kebab stores. I haven't had to pay in cash in a restaurant in forever. But sure, the internet sucks - I'll give you that.
Its No Fun at all.. Germans say dont Touch a working machine.. 5G Is forbidden cuz Its Chinese... They use WLAN Not WiFi .. Home Internet uses the Telephone chopper wires.. Cash payments are sign of Freedom.. salary Is fair done with a strong middle class
I've been to Atlanta once as an exchange student. In late summer. Roundabout 30 degrees celsius outside. AC in full throttle in the school building. 19 degrees tops. Froze my damn ass off. Actually caught a freaking cold in there. From that day on I could do without.
@@GeriatricMillenial Yes you can. The contrast makes your body use energy to adjust temperature (and even worse if you are going in and out a hot/cold contrast and your body has to keep adjusting over and over again) and that energy is taken from the least urgent system: your immune system. Then, common viruses always present in the human body find no opposition and take over: a cold. Voilà. Staying in permanent cold will have a similar effect, with your body using the energy permanently to heat you up. Any other thing that takes up resources and lowers your immune system as a result (like, a period for women, exhaustion or a spike in stress) can "give" you a cold. You don't need to catch a cold from another person (although you can, of course) because some viruses and "bad" bacteria are permanently latent in everybody.
US has the opposite problem. Houses in winter tend to be colder. In central Europe nobody wants to wear a sweater indoors in winter. I think Americans are much more used to wearing sweaters indoors.
The thing is being cold isn't much of an issue when you can have a blanket or wear a hoodie. Hot? You can only lose so much clothing. AC and a fan are a requirement.
@@nothanksguy My experience is mostly from California. Insulation is not a priority at all there. Even in SF where it does actually get kinda cold sometimes, or even LA when you're far enough way from the ocean it gets bloody cold at night. Tho ironically everyone also uses gas stoves which heat up the place a lot during the day xD
The big problem here is climate change. Before ~2012 summers were usually rather changeable so after some heat came some colder weather with rain and so on but in the last decade summers got much more extreme and heat waves got a lot longer. Additionally most houses in Europe and especially Germany are build to keep in warmth because of the longer and colder winters compared to southern countries. So after the house heated up it's very hard to get rid off the heat again. Also tropic nights (when the temperature doesn't drop below 20° C) are becoming much more common so you cannot even cool off the house or yourself at night or in the early morning hours. I think it was in 2018 when I've encountered the most disgusting heat wave that lasted several weeks, I think it was 6 or so. AC units were sold out for the next 6 months or so and even fans or any other means of cooling off were unavailable.
@@blub4108 while it is true that one hot summer does not mean the climate is changing, data clearly shows that summers have been getting hotter on average, extremely hot summers are becoming more common, and the extreme temperatures are becoming more extreme (higher than before).
@@blub4108 you do know that climate change has been becoming more noticable since the 90s? The point is that summers were not always hot. Just because you've only experienced hot summers, does not mean that has always been the way.
I love summer and only had an ac when I was at a hotel. I'm just very cold most of the time for some reason and the ridiculous heat is actually better for me. If you wanna cool yourself down and don't have an AC and can't take another shower, spray yourself with water and then use a fan. It may not be the same but it works enough.
Nah. The biggest difference between us and Europe is that in the us nearly every house is built out of wood if it isn't in a big city and a wood house heat's up much quicker than a stone one. Best tipp for stone house just leave all windows open in the night and close them in the morning and you will have the whole day long a cool house. 👍
I remember alot of cars in Europe weren't even built with air conditioners because "that's what windows are for" - my old neighbour who used to have a car like that - he died of heatstroke a few years back - RIP to a real one
Fact check true. Went to Germany in August, checked into a hotel and noticed my room was very warm. I went back to the front desk to ask if the air conditioner was broken, to which they responded they don't have air conditioning in any of their rooms but every room has a fan. It was a 5in diameter desk fan.
"Do you know how much energy that uses?" Actually AC tech has gotten quit good. If you've got any AC from the past 10/15 years it's not too draining. Stick it on dehumidification mode for coolness that stays even when it's off.
they live in a fantasy of cheap gas for heating, so they don't consider gas as "energy". they have expensive electricity. and they believe countries that use AC are wasteful, because it's a luxury. i'm from a warm country, and for us, heating is the luxury. when i hear the argument that AC is luxury, i answer "oh, heating is a luxury, you can just put on more clothes, you don't need to heat the whole house". people get FURIOUS and start with their arguments of pipes freezing and that you die with no heating. so i say "well, when every day is 35C+ for months at a time, you also die of heat". no, they don't get convinced.
@@83hjf Agreed. Germany can seriously piss off with their lectures on energy consumption. They were so over dependent on Russia for natural gas and petroleum too. Not to mention how they stupidly closed down their nuclear power plants.
I have my office under the roof of a German house without AC and I don't even have a fan. Even in this apocalyptic summer, it is fine. Important thing is lots of cross ventilation with open windows during the night, when it's colder outside than inside. And then, the second it heats up in the morning you close every window and ideally then blinds as well. And you have to accept that the human body sweats a bit.
I am lucky to live in old farmhouse with 14" thick walls. And I do the trick of letting in cool air at night and keeping things buttoned up until sunset. And when it is really hot, we set up a summer kitchen on the terrace with the toaster oven and hot plate so we don't heat up the kitchen.
They have very low profile, small, energy efficient AC units that can be installed on the outside of buildings by drilling small holes inside. They work very well, are very efficient and are small something like a 1x2 foot rectangle attached to the building.
It's funny because this is how it is in Germany 😂 My fiancé asked for an AC and I said no with the same arguments. 10 years ago I told the car vendor that I want an AC instead of a radio in my car (present from dad and I had to chose between one). Both laughed at me that in Germany ACs are innecessary... see who's laughing for the past 7-10 years...
I'm also from Germany. I can't understand why someone would not choose an AC for a car. It heats up so bad inside cars, especially if they are of darker color.
@@Alexander-yg4dr Hahaha I can relate as an Indian. I'm ready to go bathroom a thousand times and use a blanket but AC should always be at it's maximum capabilities 😂
I live in Missouri, and out of 31 days last month, 24 of them exceeded 93 degrees(33 Celcius), and 6 days exceeding 100 degrees (37 Celcius), and we're in a heat advisory currently for the next several days, so I applaud all the Europeans living and working through this or hotter without AC, cause I'd probably just die. (Being a ginger, even good weather days aren't great for me in the sun lol)* Being in the Midwest, we're not even part of the hottest states in the US and it's still incredibly hot, so the places like Arizona where it gets hot enough to watch the freakin walls melt, and imagining that in EU with no AC? Yeaaaa, I'd say the higher electric bill is worth it at that point.
It's not only about the electricity bill but climate change. Consuming much energy is such a bad thing Todo and if the only argument you have is "oh it's so hot I need ac" it's idiotic. Destroying our climate because of something like this is like commiting suicide because of boredom.
As a Canadian, I'm surprised they don't install heat pumps across the entire EU to stay cool while mitigating the list of problems that were mentioned. I know they're common in Nordic countries, so why not use them farther south in countries like Germany?
Many Germans are very anti-tech. The knowledge about science or engineering is not very spread around the population. Split ACs with reversing valves for heating and cooling operation with some solar panels would be great for places in Europe. Free cooling in summer and cheap heating in spring and autumn.
Problem is that the previous conservative govt (Merkel) promised the world, but did nothing and totally botched it. Now the demand is here and there are not enough people install heat pumps...
@@1Kaisermerlin Which is also crap - using heat pumps in Germany without nuclear power is simply absurd. Operating the last 3 German NPP saves more CO2-emissions per YEAR than converting German homes to heatpumps within SEVEN YEARS. That's the same problem as mentioned above, ignoring "MINT-Fächer" (which means math, IT, natural Science and engineering) and people come up with stupid ideas. Play stupid games and win stupid prizes. The running costs are also insanely high, in my town - during the day "high tariff" 37,90 ct/kWh and at night "low tariff" 34,80 ct/kWh + 76,55€ fee/year for electricity. Converting a typical German home from the 80s to an air-to-water heatpump (Panasonic Aquarea Monoblock, Daikin Altherma, Vaillant aroTHERM and many others) basically won't save you alot of running costs since these systems barely operate at SCOPs above 3, a research project from 2017 (IBP-Mitteilung 549 - Energieeffizienz elektrisch angetriebener Wärmepumpen - energy efficiency of electrically operated heat pumps) has shown an average SCOP of 2,6 for air-to-water heatpumps. Well done! Using homes that can't be easily run on heat pumps (old radiators require higher temperatures - no problem for gas and oil but a huge problem for a heat pump!) creates an enourmous resistance in the German population - especially in Bavaria (conservative). Heating during the day with an estimated SCOP of 3,1 (better than average!) creates costs of 12,22 ct/kWh and presumably even higher costs at night when electricity is cheaper but the outside temperature way lower. Gas is below 10 ct/kWh, boiler losses are insignificant with modern condensing boilers. Congratulations! You have spent roughly 20,000€ (heat pump, buffer tank, second electric meter (usually old meter panels will have to be replaced - outdated or no space for ripple relay receiver)) and pay more than before with hardly any change on the CO2-emissions. Right now - 12.09.2023, 19:11 - the CO2-emissions per kWh: Germany 500 France 49 Finland 37 Germans and their energy strategy - a laughing matter.
I lived in Southern Germany in the US Army and never needed AC. Even the cars had no AC. Had a apartment in a small German town. It was nice. But in winter definitely needed heating!! I have a house in Florida built in 1959. It has a attic fan. That's what they used before they had central air.
Hi, middle aged Australian here. When I was young, AC units were relatively rare in homes. Now, people treat me like I'm both a sadist and a masochist for refusing to install one. I love hot days though, so maybe they're right!
This explains a lot. I am an American living in Brazil with German relatives living in Berlin. Every time they come to visit they constantly max out the air conditioner. They seem to have no concept of how a thermostat works.
i used to work in a music shop in England and it was a sweaty summer, a customer(american) asked me to put on some ac and i asked ''do u mean acdc?'' u can pretty much guess how that convo went. i had to explain to her that in England (at that time anyway) most people dont know what ac is, since we have really cold winters and its usually cold anyway. we only get 2 weeks of sun if that a year so our buildings are designed to trap the heat in and it will cost too much to install ac just to use for 2 weeks out of the entire year. thankfully now i see that some shops have ac but not all of them do. ive never known anyone that has ac in there house yet. hopefully it will b a standard in the future to have ac in buildings
Busy shops need AC because of the body heat from too many bodies. But houses are generally able to just get by by pulling the blinds, encouraging drafts, drinking plenty of water and MAYBE having a desk fan or two if it's really bad. Because most people have the good sense not to pack people inside during a heatwave.
And I thougt my appartment was badly insulated being under the roof and all. But I never hit more than 29°C inside even if the temperatures outside are 40°C.
1) Open the window in the room you want to cool. 2) Open the window in a room across the house and put a fan facing out the window. This will create a low pressure zone. 3) The low pressure zone will suck in the cold outside air into room 1 and push out the hot inside air from room 2
@@milanjovanovic6259 No, mainly from sunshine. Did you never notice, walking on concrete in the sunshine, it can be burning hot ? hotter than the air ? So "from the air" is only true, on the first day of heat. Any day after, it's cause the building accumulates the heat.
@@milkwalkerjones633You support the idea, the house gets hot, cause somebody left door and window open and let the air in ? So by keeping them closed, it stays outside ? That's crazy. Yes it works, but only for 2-3 days. Physics is the same in USA. And the "first day of heat" is so rare in USA, maybe some day in March, maybe you don't notice. As long as you have cool nights (below 68F) , every day is first day of heat, and it's really enough to get the heat out at night. Or do you know a greenhouse ? It's becoming warmer inside, than outside. Or a car in the sunshine, same effect. So how can it become warmer inside, if the heat would come from the outside air ? Simply impossible, isn't it ? How do you cool a car in the sun ? You open doors widely, don't you ? Now, I'm just in doubt over education in USA. Debating club is more popular than physics ;-)
New, modern KFW standard houses in Germany and Europe are very good isolated. They do not need an AC because the temperature inside is not affected by the outside temperature (or at least not that much).
I usually just sleep through the hottest hours of the day. At least here in south Germany it could be a lot worse. It's also usually a kind of dry heat
It’s almost like Germany has the same latitude as the northern US/ southern Canada. Compare to middle/southern US where the “cool of the night” is often a mere 80f/ 27c in summer and it only gets hotter when the sun rises.
And despite being so far north the rate of heat related deaths in Germany is so high that most years more people die of heat in Germany than in the entire U.S.
Hamburg is 685 miles north of Toronto. Berlin is about 415 miles north of Montreal’s latitude. Paris's latitude is 48.5. The US border with Canada is 49. Paris is 35 miles south of the US border with Canada.
Just use an Cooler with these water-reservoir which yu can put in youre Freezer and then in the cooler :). I live in a loft apartment and this helps so much. Also helps when you like me, have really dry and sensitive eyes which gets worse with an AC. Also DON'T open the windows at daytime and close the Blinds after you aired youre appartment every morning.
@@LorenzJahn That freezer is in your appartement anyway, whether you use it to cool an element or not. But really, the night time and early morning airing schedule works.
@@itsalwayshalloweenexceptwh5118 yeees yes LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS. but the heating of your living space it produces for you to have a glass of ice is un-noticeable. It is a net cooling effect to your body to have a tall glass of iced tea.
I was surprised with how little power AC uses vs heating when I moved to a place where I had to pay for the electricity instead of having it included in the rent
My aunt does this and I call it "Her window dance of suffering" She INSISTS on a strict schedule of opening and closing of the windows to save $ on AC. I end of sending 75% of your videos to my German family members and we have a good laugh...love your content.
