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How to Dress and Undress your Home | To make buildings more energy-efficient, consider curtains, awnings, wall hangings, and other textile insulation technologies from a time before air conditioning (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
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Appropriate technology in action. And as a bonus, textile insulation could use material from all those fast fashion clothes dumped in the desert or otherwise abandoned to dissolve into microplastics :/

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[–] ODGreen@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Fun fact, adding textiles to walls for insulation is where we get the term "furring" from.

I wish awnings were more common. Such a simple way to block out midday or afternoon sun in the hot summer.

[–] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Awnings are amazing and you can actually adjust them seasonally - extend them fully in summer to block heat, then retract them in winter to let that free solar heat in through your windows (just installed some last year and my cooling costs droped significantly).

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ODGreen@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

That's where I got the idea from! Excellent channel.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

While the billionaires have AC on private jets, we have those shitty euro bakery curtains. Great.

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

You are free to have AC as well, if you think that's a sensible solution. No need to be a billionaire.

[–] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago

Taking away a billionaire's private jet, as cool as that would be, won't cut your electric bill. Shitty Euro bakery curtains will 😆