Cool your home without heating the planet

Summer is just around the corner, and you can cool your home without unnecessarily heating the planet. Consumer Investigator Chris Chmura’s empowering us to be climate warriors - with a little air conditioning and DIY.
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[@amartinez589]

You can also consider investing in a whole house fan. The idea is you turn it on and open your windows to bring cool air into your home when the temperature is coolest (early morning/late evening) and then close all your windows and shades to seal that cool air in once the temperature rises. You will save lots of energy on the time your AC isn't running, depending on where you live you may not need the AC at all.

[@Clouds-su3dc]

White roofs do way better then that and the more brighter the white roofs are the more sunlights heat is being reflected back to space to keep things colder inside the home and outside too.

[@mulsannestraight]

You can install heat shield reflectors on your windows to reflect all that heat away my home stay cold AF during those 100 deg days without running AC!

[@Clouds-su3dc]

Get a super white paint called barium sulphate paint and use it over your house roof. It’s works way better than using air conditioning and it’s better than heat shield reflectors. This super white paint reflects 98.5% of sunlight heat back to space and it has a cooling effect by radiating heat away from the surface even if it was at night time. Combined with that using white curtains for all your house windows would really cause you to never have to use your air conditioning during a hot day again.

[@brianp5205]

Your efforts will be worthless as PG&E increases your rate anyways.

[@Clouds-su3dc]

The black asphalt roofs on your house is the real main reason why your air conditioning is working so hard to cool down your home. Replace that black asphalt roof with the brightest white paint you can find and you will see that your house in the summer days will take forever to warm up during a hot day before the AC needs to turn on or it can completely prevent you from using your AC at all throughout the whole day. I recommend you to see if you can get barium sulphate paint, it’s the whitest paint in the world that reflects 98.5% of sunlight and it has a cooling affect also by radiating away from the surface at night. Keep in mind for the winter the paint itself can act as a barrier to prevent heat in your home from escaping on a cold day people say on a video I saw.

[@sweetliquidsnake]

You can do what ever you want, as soon as a volcano erupts all that is erased

[@gg-gn3re]

white roofs do more than all of that, lmao. Stop getting black asphalt..

[@Clouds-su3dc]

That is straight up facts 👌 and that’s what I’m saying too.