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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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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i am at War with the sun
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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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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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(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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i will keep you all up to date on these proceedings
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Has the summer heat been an annual issue, or is it just particularly bad this time?
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some of both last year it got hot the week that all the forests were on fire and air quality was so bad we couldn't open the windows that was really unpleasant no fires right now but the temperature is gonna be in mid-100s and I have a baby :/
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Gorcha, ty. I hope you all get through this unpleasant weather all okay
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