• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    You and the commenter above are blowing my mind. How much land do you think an HVAC unit requires?! You simply install it on the north side of the house/apartment/whatever, out of the sun.

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      18 hours ago

      I know it doesn’t require much land, but there isn’t any land available in population dense areas. Roof installations would be required for row houses and situations like that.

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        16 hours ago

        Sure, if you’re downtown or something, but my understanding is that most people don’t live downtown, but instead just outside of urban areas.

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          14 hours ago

          The OP is about a different country, it’s possible ‘most people’ in that place do live ‘downtown’. But even if it’s not most, still there’s a whole lot of people in every country who live in bigger density situations, often there is no ground level outside space free for new installations.

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            12 hours ago

            Sure. I can’t really place where they’re from given the picture, but I’m guessing something in the Americas south of the US? If so, there’s probably plenty of space.

            But yeah, it’s possible, I just think in many areas, a meter square pad is doable.