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You can't heat south of the Yangtze

gepostet am 03. March 2010 um 15:26


I was in Shanghai in December and am here again in March, and it is really cold and unpleasant. As I have rented my own apartment, we are enjoying the old Chinese rule: "You can't heat south of the Yangtze!"

For softy Europeans like us, it's a bummer! Apartments in modern tower blocks are equipped with air conditioning, but these aren't really efficient at providing heat. It's also a case of inadequate insulation. There are draughts at all the windows, and the floors and walls are ice-cold; with air heating they hardly warm up at all. Energy efficiency is something else: we let the heating run continually until it's halfway endurable. Once it's turned off again, you can see the thermometer tumbling. And it's all powered by electricity … There's obviously a need to catch up when it comes to the energy balance sheet and sustainability.

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