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First panel: a poorly drawn figure with half-closed lids asks a smart™ thermostat “hey little man hows it goin?” Second Panel: the smart thermostat points with a large arrow at a screenshot of a graphic that reads “August Trends: Heating & cooling compared with last year”, and shows zero hours more heating, 129 hours more cooling, with a small caption underneath that reads “On average, temperatures were 5 degrees warmer than August 2022” Third Panel: the poorly drawn figure with half-closed lids is shown with an unreadable smile in front of a semi-transparent image of a NASA article that reads “NASA Clocks July 2023 as Hottest Month on Record Ever Since 1880” Fourth Panel: the poorly drawn figure says “yea”

  • ryannathans
    121·
    1 year ago

    Meanwhile we used over 3000kwh each month through the cooler months just keeping the house warm to 17-18C

    • garden_boi@feddit.de
      211·
      1 year ago

      So? Are you complaining that

      • your house is poorly insulated or
      • that you are in a bad place financially or
      • that Australia’s energy mix is not sustainable enough or
      • that you cannot afford a heat pump for efficient heating?

      Or is it something else?

      • ryannathans
        4·
        1 year ago

        Landlords don’t care about insulating properly

        Energy prices are 30c per kwh, insane energy bill of 1000$ per month to heat to a cold temperature

        This is using heat pump heating 💀

        For a place to be “fit” for living in, it should cost less than a thousond a month in heating. All this while half the world is struggling with heat, wild isn’t it?