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Summary
It's hot. Dangerously hot for millions of people across all continents, and it's dangerously hot in the Arctic and the Antarctic, our planetary thermostats.
If people can keep cool, and if food and medicines are kept cold, they can be safe. If not, then at best, productivity falls away; at worst, morbidity and mortality rise. The stories mount of records broken, of never-experienced heat from Pakistan and northern India to the UK, Spain, France, British Colombia, Argentina, China and the United States — every continent.
In a powerful piece of journalism, Louise Callaghan for the Sunday Times in the UK compared life in two cities in a region that is blisteringly hot, and getting ever hotter: Basra, where electricity and cooling are not widely available, and Kuwait City, just 80 miles away, an island of air-conditioned comfort.
This hyper-efficient world needs to run off intelligent, clean energy grids. Clean energy grids power heat pumps and district cooling systems, where cold water running through pipes can keep whole building complexes cool. They will run efficient fans and air conditioners and interact with thermostats to respond to energy demand.
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