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    eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 27

    the entire east side of my apartment is made of glass. im expecting I can cover roughly three fifths of it with highly reflective material, reducing radiant contributions to heating by about 50% in the earlier part of the day

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      2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 27

        if i have enough material and i can figure out how to get closer to the ceiling without killing myself i might be able to increase this to 80%

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      3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 27

        i am at War with the sun

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      4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 27

        i was awake until sunrise today. i saw the yellow face slowly creeping over the misty mountains to the east and glowered at my enemy rising to oppress me. tomorrow she comes again, with greater force perhaps she will win this time. but eventually i will destroy her

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      5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 27

        my hope for tomorrow is that (i) im able to get tons of net cooling done during the night with the tiny AC unit, and that (ii) the reflective material covering my windows reduces radiant heating to the point that

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      6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 27

        (iii) the little AC unit doesnt lose too much ground to conduction during the day tomorrow when it gets to be 108 fucking degrees in seattle, so that (iv) my baby and my cats do not die of heat poisoning

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      7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 27

        i will keep you all up to date on these proceedings

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      8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 28

        exciting update i forgot to get a ladder so i was a little worried about the upper windows HOWEVER i have discovered by trial and error (it turns out our stools do not stably stack on top of one another) our cat trees can support the weight of a full grown man

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      9. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 28

        making fantastic progress will poast photo when complete

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      10. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 28

        found a DRAFT sealed it almost done with the main room

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      11. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 28

        related: if you use a portable AC unit the plastic exhaust hose gets hot, which means some of the gains from the unit are dissipated immediately. always use the minimum hose range. I further mitigated this with improvised insulationpic.twitter.com/0Y8EWuu8Kw

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      12. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 28

        ok final treatment of the main room. the Chinese plastic foil was a pain to cut with precision given my tools, so I used that for large areas and touched up with aluminum foil (ht @petergodofsky for the idea) its hard to see the plastic foil but itll be obvious in daylightpic.twitter.com/HbTsuqxVzP

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      13. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 28

        further picture post-tidying. if you are doing some home improvement project to impress your wife its important to clean up afterwardpic.twitter.com/WbianymgTY

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      14. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 28

        I may unplug our refrigerator at peak heat tomorrow and replug it in at night. can pack the important frozen stuff into the deep freeze in the other room. Everything should keep for a few hours at least, and it would take pressure off the AC.

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      15. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 28

        eigenrobot Retweeted Fifty, Foul, A Sly Drunk

        shit i did not realize aluminum was chiral ok break and then I fix this where there were errorshttps://twitter.com/FunkyDuffy/status/1409398430305116162?s=19 …

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        Fifty, Foul, A Sly Drunk @FunkyDuffy
        Replying to @eigenrobot
        The Poor of the Sunbelt have a particular affinity for aluminum foil. Make sure you use the shiny side and not the dull side. Small sections with enough scotch tape to keep everything flush to the glass. You may want to consider prioritizing windows on the west side instead.
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      16. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 28

        eigenrobot Retweeted eigenrobot

        further problem to mitigate: for some reason the AC unit blows up sometimes. going to make a device to stop directing air at the ceiling, using the vault instead to trap hot air. convection seems like my enemy here given how much the roof is gonna bakehttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1409461775838289921?s=19 …

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        eigenrobot @eigenrobot
        related: if you use a portable AC unit the plastic exhaust hose gets hot, which means some of the gains from the unit are dissipated immediately. always use the minimum hose range. I further mitigated this with improvised insulation pic.twitter.com/0Y8EWuu8Kw
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      17. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 28

        I genuinely appreciate the metis from Sunbelters. I have not needed AC for my entire adult life and I am kind of going on half-baked episteme here

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      18. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 28

        went back and checked which way the aluminum was facing nearly every piece is facing dull side outward because of fucking course slowly and painstakingly reversing it sunrise was 5:00a 45m later it's almost 80 outside this is going to be an awful day on the west coast

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      19. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 28

        the problem is not the temperature per se, it's that nothing is built for this, maybe excluding some office towers. but not older buildings especially AC remains relatively rare in seattle the usual heat advisory is "stay indoors" but that doesnt work if "indoors" isnt cooled

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      20. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 28

        starting to think the foil is counterproductive. it's really heating up, even when correctly-oriented. might try to replace it with the plastic.

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      21. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 28

        i am not buying anything else there is literally nothing on sale in the city of seattle at 6am and air conditioners have been sold out for a week and i have not slept. the tools on hand are the tools I am using

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      22. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 28

        ok im going to bed this is the stuff i got hope it workshttps://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07W7JWTL8/ …

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      23. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 28

        eigenrobot Retweeted redoatz

        a related thread. what a great story. my dad's was probably The Flood when our city was mostly destroyed by a catastrophic flood he saved our house and most of our furniture and got us evacuated and drained the basementhttps://twitter.com/redoatz/status/1409552949886521352?s=19 …

        eigenrobot added,

        redoatz @redoatz
        this thread is great it reminds me of the time i kept my wife and two young children alive for three days in a rare virginia blizzard without power or heat https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1409395049423462407 …
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      24. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 28

        most importantly he was one of the like 2% of homeowners in the city who had looked at the river and thought "yes I believe I will purchase flood insurance this year" do not underestimate the value of such prudence! I am grateful for his careful stewardship

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      25. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 28

        anyway, its upper 90s in Seattle, feels maybe mid-upper 70s inside. looks like I made it through the early morning sun assault on the eastern window. going to call this a smashing victory. thanks everyone who came along for the ride--I hope everyone else in PNW is holding tight

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