Australia to host 2024 International Renewable Energy Conference

BUT – comfort is a complicated and entrenched behavior that’s rarely rational. For example, my father-in-law’s cousin set her air conditioning at 65° F (18° C) in the summer so she would have to wear a sweater. In the winter, she set her heat to 80° F (27° C) so she could wear short sleeves.When it comes to daytime room temperature, a series of psychological experiments by the Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) showed that people have been socialized to believe that 72° F (22° C) is the optimum comfortable room temperature.

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The world’s best solar power schemes now offer the “cheapest…electricity in history” with the technology cheaper than coal and gas in most major countries.

That is according to the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook 2020. The 464-page outlook, published today by the IEA, also outlines the “extraordinarily turbulent” impact of coronavirus and the “highly uncertain” future of global energy use over the next two decades.

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