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In my country – Vietnam, people are experiencing terribly hot days. And I guess that many other countries in Asia are also facing the same situation. The problem I want to put on here is that how the citizens of the countries can avoid the heat appropriately? More and more houses buy air-conditioners to cool the air in their houses. In my residential area, almost every house has at least one air-conditioner. However, during operating, air-conditioners emit CFC or HFCs into atmosphere. HFCs and CFC are gases which can make the globe warmer as 150-11700 times as CO2 does in a period of 20 years. These gases also deplete the Ozone layer. As consequence, human, due to avoiding the heat, by accident makes the earth hotter and hotter. The temperature they experience this year will be higher than that of the previous year. Besides, using air-conditioner costs a lot of electrical energy. Therefore, during each summer, human must exploit more and more fossil fuels to produce electricity. So, what is the best way to avoid heat in summer? Sorry, I have not got many good ideas. Because installing air-conditioners are still the best way to help staff and workers avoid heat in summer. Using fans is absolutely useless because fans just blow more hot air, they cannot create cool air. In rural areas, there are many trees which moisture the air and cool the air. But it is really difficult to grow so many of trees in urban areas and in sky-scrapper buildings. I sincerely hope other Ambassadors will offer me good method or advice to cope with this problem. Thanks a lot. |
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It is a big problem in Uzbekistan too. Today it was about 44°C and it is like this almost about everyday. We live in an apartment and sometimes it seems that we need another air conditioner. Sometimes I forget to close the windows and it gets sooo hot. I guess planting more tres and grass will help reproduce the hot air, but I dont yhink that there is or will be anything to make the sun stop shining😕 Hope you can get better ideas from others 👌
Posted 27-07-2016 04:46
Thao, I'm afraid I also do not have clear ideas about this problem. But my hometown is cooler compared to neighboring ones, and I believe the main reason is that we have much more green area than others. Trees and forests certainly makes us feel more cool. Thanks for sharing, and I hope you can receive more brilliant ideas from other ambassadors!
Posted 24-07-2016 12:20
@Patrica: I admire you! You live in Bali! I really hope to have chance to Bali.
Posted 22-07-2016 00:41
@ Heonjun Park: I tried to stay in still and take shower as long as I can then many roommates complain me ahaha. You cannot be king or queen of domitory's bathroom :v
Posted 22-07-2016 00:39
Well, I'm afraid I also don't know the answers for that haha. Better to take a cool shower and stay still do nothing? It's what I do :p
Posted 21-07-2016 18:29
We don't have winter here in Bali aaaahhhhh
Posted 21-07-2016 14:47
I hope that winter will come soon. I cannot bear the heat in Vietnam anymore! :(((((
Posted 21-07-2016 13:44
I agree with you. My home has 5 air conditioners (I'm ashamed to say that aahh). We try to use them as little as possible because it is bad for the environment and also it is literally such a waste of money. But the heat is seriously so unbearable!!!!!!! Just by standing in the hall outside my room for 5 minutes I'm already sweating so much! Indonesia's heat has gone over 30 degree Celcius almost everyday, but I know that other places are worse. My friend from LA told me that it reached 45 degrees Celcius a week ago or so and I was so surprised.
Posted 21-07-2016 00:03