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The Five Best Ways for Free Home Cooling with No AC

The Five Best Ways for Free Home Cooling with No AC

It’s hot these days. Here are the five common sense ways for home cooling with no AC.

  1. Close your curtains and blinds during the day. This will help to keep the sun’s heat out of your home. If you don’t have curtains or blinds, you can use sheets or towels to cover your windows. Close your curtains and blinds during the day.
  2. Run ceiling fans. Ceiling fans can help to circulate the air in your home, which can help to keep you cool. If you have a ceiling fan, ensure it is set to blow down.
  3. Use fans to create a cross breeze. If you have windows on opposite sides of your home, you can open them to create a cross breeze. This will help to draw the cooler air in from outside and push the hot air out.
  4. Take cool showers or baths. Taking a cool shower or bath can help to lower your body temperature. You can also use a wet towel to cool down your neck and forehead.
  5. Cook outside and unplug devices. Cooking outside on a barbeque, camp stove, RV, or other appliance outside will help keep your house cooler. The heat generated by an oven or a stove can quickly counteract any other efforts you made throughout the day.

Here are some additional tips to keep your home cool without air conditioning:

  • Ventilate your home at night. If it’s cooler outside than it is inside, open your windows at night to let in the cool air and begin the next day with a nice cool house.
  • Plant trees around your home. Trees can help to shade your home and keep it cooler in the summer.
  • Use reflective insulation. Reflective insulation can help to reflect the sun’s heat away from your home.
  • Seal up any air leaks. Air leaks can let in hot air, so sealing them up is important.

By following these tips, you can keep your home cool without air conditioning and save money on your energy bills.

 

 


 

 

Source  Happy Eco News

Spain to hold clean energy auction by year-end under new system

Spain to hold clean energy auction by year-end under new system

A vocal supporter of European efforts to limit planet-warming emissions, Spain has set out an ambitious plan to install 50 gigawatts (GW) of renewable capacity by 2030.

Reuters Newsagency reports it hopes the process will also create more than 100,000 jobs annually and reduce energy costs for consumers and businesses.

Rolling out renewables “is a crucial lever to reactivate the economy, for a recovery, and we cannot wait,” Energy and Environment Minister Teresa Ribera said.

The auction system being replaced was created in 2013, when the costs of producing energy from renewable sources were higher than the price it could command in the market, Ms Ribera said, but solar energy can now be produced at costs lower than the market price.

 

“We have to make sure this can be integrated into the system in an orderly fashion, benefiting consumers,” she said.

 

The new decree should give the sector “confidence to be able to hold the first auction before the end of the year”.

Bids will be submitted sealed, and the winners will receive different prices based on their offers, in what is known as a “pay as bid” system.

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s cabinet also approved a plan setting out a route to make Spain’s economy carbon neutral by 2050, using offsets like planting carbon-absorbing trees to balance out climate-changing emissions.

Under this plan, Spain expects to be able to reduce its emissions by 90 per cent from their 1990 levels and offset the remaining 10 per cent.

 


 

By  David Twomey

Source: Eco News