The Melting Aircon
[2017-02-23 Thu 19:10:00] speaker: Sandra Marichal event: Science in the Cafe
French in Singapore for 5 years
Too cold because of too much airon?
- 96.5% said yes out of thousand of responders
Air conditioning consumes 36% of total household energy
Importance of communicating the impact in an easy to understand metric For one HDB flat, needs 300 trees to absorb CO2 due to air con.
Why Singapore? Small country, big impact
Antartica is melting but we don’t feel it here. Go to Antartica and report back
About a hundred people went, in teams of 9. Many nationalities, no conflicts, everyone followed orders.
Minimum 5 meters away from the wildlife. Penguin, seals, orca.
If all of Antartica melts, sea levels will rise by 60m.
Why don’t people change the temperature?
- First reason: cannot control
- Don’t want to feel paiseh
- Aircon must be cold, known as “leng qi”
- Government will take care of it
Increase your aircon temperature by 2 degrees, so that the planet don’t have to do it
Simple ways: put a sticker indicating the right temperature It is not illegal if the sticker can be removed without leaving a mark.
Pushed for BCA to have building be set to 23 - 25 degrees. Adopted in Dec 2016.
Focus on scalable initiatives.