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27183 • yesterday at 10:19 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

It takes a large amount of fuel to keep a car cool (or warm) compared to a properly insulated interior room in a properly insulated house. Cars have almost no thermal insulation to speak of, just sound deadening material, and they're made of thermally conductive materials.


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80fj0348i • today at 2:01 AM

Yeah but people already own them and you can drive to somewhere else that has AC where you can hang out.