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To: robert b furman who wrote (4941)	3/24/2020 10:19:27 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13798

Why so many Covid-19 cases in warm South Asia? Freezing in the tropics: Asean’s air-con conundrum eco-business.com South Asians freeze their buildings. I have got may colds living in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia and one terrible one in August 1995 as my former wife went to a medical exam.. You need to bring a blanket to the movie theater !. It always bothered me as I always carried a windbreaker when the weather was 30 to 32C outside. Wind breaker for airports, offices, hotels and Malls. You enter a mall, park you car in the underground parking, which is much hotter than the outside and go from 36C to 20C. Bang ! And inside these properties cold and with dry air Covid-19 was waiting for you. The locals are used to it. This huge use of electricity went on until concerns about fossil fuels sent the alarms red. "...electricity consumption tends to rise with affluence levels. Electricity consumption to power home appliances has increased at a rate of around 7.5% annually from 155.3 TWh in 1990 to 821.1 TWh in 2013 . ...there seemed to be limited smart use of airconditioning such as sensors to reduce AC intensity when occupants were absent, or other measures to adjust temperatures when the outside temperature dropped. That means during Monsoon season, when there is a cloud cover, indoor temperatures are not adjusted. It is full blown all the time Jair Smits, Managing Director of the Hydroinformatics Institute based in Singapore, suggested that “aircon settings (should be) dependent on outside temperature and humidity. It is ridiculous that they remain unchanged during rainstorm events, turning aircon-cooled spaces into fridges.”