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Awning. They're a great way to reduce the need for AC by providing shade in treeless regions.

The lost technology of awnings. Technology Connections strikes again!

Unless you are someone like Wile E. Coyote.

SunSetter retractable awning.

Hey it's not just cartoon characters, an awning also saved Indiana Jones' life!

It either breaks your fall or you leave a hole that is a perfect silhouette of your prone figure.

Wait, he did a video on awnings? That sounds like a fascinating half hour I never knew I needed.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Guh4J7ATGoc

Don't need to look to know it's at least an hour.

Basically an energy shield protecting against the giant uncontrollable fusion reactor in the sky.

80% of the flats where I live have one above their balcony - and we are not even close to treeless.

I was really bewildered by the idea that someone might not know what these are...

Not dedicated to awnings, I think it was part of one of his home heating/cooling videos. Been awhile. He convinced me to put them on my house the next time I do the roof.

I was gonna say hour but I hedged my bets 😂

Happens in real life, too:

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/man-in-minneapolis-falls-16-stories-is-saved-by-awning/

A stunt so nice he filmed it twice.

Jackie is a crazy mofo.

and/or marquise

In some places where air conditioning is omnipresent they're uncommon. There's a technology connections video about them that touches on it

But AC wouldn't cover the balcony (which here is the most common usecase for awnings)?

they still help block sunshine from heating your south wall, which reduces the need for AC indoors.

Never hedge your bets. Go all in or leave the table.

I just don't know how its named in English, where I'm from they're toldos

Since no one has provided the Technology Connections link yet... Enjoy losing the next 20 minutes to learning about awnings!

Thank you Alec from Technology Connection.

Everytime

Not a word.

pedant

A word.

German has a word for it: Markise

But he’s right though.

Also heat pumps!

Balconies aren't really a thing for most people in the American Midwest, which is where I'm from. You have porches and patios, but those are weather permitting structures and they're mostly used when it's a bit later so it's not too bright.

I really want solar panel awnings over our deck. It’s south facing and the painted surface is easily 140°F in the sun.

Just need a cheap way to use the power from it to run the AC just in the other side of the porch.

Especially heat pumps!

Also heat pumps!

Isn't that not just another word for AC in this context?

Here's the thing. You said a "heatpump is a A/C."

Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.

As someone who is a scientist who studies A/C's, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls heat pumps A/C's. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.

If you're saying "A/C family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of HVACae, which includes things from fans to swamp coolers to radiators.

So your reasoning for calling a heat pump a A/C is because random people "call the heat exchanger thingies A/C?" Let's get refridgerators and freezers in there, then, too.

Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A heat pump is a heat pump and a member of the A/C family. But that's not what you said. You said a heat pump is a A/C, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the heat exchanger family A/C's, which means you'd call refridgerators, freezers, and other heat exchangers A/C's, too. Which you said you don't.

It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?

(hello to the 10% of humans who live in the southern hemisphere, i did eventually remember you exist too)

Really? I heard that you got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, and know when to run.

Brave of you to bring a reddit copypasta here

I mean you have trees, so they're mostly on the balcony. I live in a large city (not many trees) of mostly row homes, and they're on like every window of the side of the houses that face the sun. Not just patios.

I've been doing it throughout. "Take what you like and leave the rest"

I like it.

My AC does sound like a murder of crows…

Here in Germany we have outside jalousie blinds on every window that also serve that purpose during summer.

Obviously. It's a Britney Spears song.

Here’s the thing. You said a “heatpump is a A/C.”

Er... No?

I said "In this context" (using it to keep a room cool), a heat pump is AC.
No generalization, specifically just this usecase.

And while the rest of your rant is not wrong, it just does not apply to what I actually said...

Well, it would also help blocking sunshine from heating their south wall too, but before that, something must have gone horribly, horribly wrong...

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Only slightly off topic here: I can recommend Larry Niven's short story "Inconstant Moon" :-)

Markiisi in Finnish

Finnish truly has a word for everything...

Yes, and if we can't come up with our own, we really like to steal words from neighbors

Here is the context of this copy-pasta: I am referencing an old redditor named Unidan, and this post was his downfall. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/unidan

It is fun to take the copy-pasta and modify it to fit any all X are Y but not all Y are X type situations, to reference this bit of our shared internet history in a tongue in cheek manner. I don't actually have any problem with calling heat pumps multi-purpose A/Cs.

I strongly believe the "Death" and cartoon characters should be swapped for this