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As Europe Sweats, Some Politicians Talk of Air-Conditioning, Not Climate Action (www.nytimes.com)
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Heat-related deaths and disruptions to daily life are forcing politicians to reckon, in different ways, with a rapidly warming planet.

Unfortunately, adaptation on its on isn't doable. It takes ending the use of fossil fuels, which are the main cause of the warming, to make adaptation affordable.

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Not really the same thing, they are heat pumps rather than thermal batteries. Still cool stuff though. They don't have to be deep to only supply heat either, but they do need to be deep if you want to skip the heat pump part of it.

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