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          • Platomus@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            Right… And you don’t see any glaring differences between to two?

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              There are differences, obviously, but I don’t know which of those differences would make one of them natural. Nature didn’t create either of them; they are both man-made constructions.

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                But using your intuitions, which one do you think the person responded to above meant as more natural?

                Probably the one that doesn’t use electricity, right?

                It feels like being obtuse for no reason.

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                  You are correct

                  I used the words “natural technology” because it felt like the best word to describe natural solutions like the air tower in the image

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                  So, electricity is unnatural and hence bad? Is that the point being made here? Because the original opinion was that we should focus on natural solutions over artificial ones, and I asked the question in an effort to understand why they would say that.

                  Instead of arguing against a guess (or “intuition”) of what they mean, I think it’s constructive to find out exactly what they mean first. That way we’re not just talking past one another in the typical, polarized internet fashion.

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                    That’s not what being said at all

                    Electricity is a form of energy but its created using other forms of energy and there are losses from conversion becsuse we don’t have 100% efficency so it would be better to use other forms of energy that are naturally present when possible to avoid losses of energy from converting them to electricity

                    Then you only need to use electricity as necessary

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                    1 year ago

                    Where did I say any of that?

                    I’m not arguing for good or bad anything. What do you think this conversation is?

                    Reread this discussion. I was exclusively talking about how it’s blatantly obvious that a tunnel with water to chill air is more natural than an AC unit - and you’re pretending to not understand that.

                    Stop trying to fight and we wouldn’t be taking past each other.

                    OP didn’t even say one was worse or better. He just said to look for lower maintenance and energy use. And again - that’s blatantly obvious between an AC unit and a TUNNEL WITH WATER.

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      What I’m talking about is natural technology like the air cooling tower in the image

      And artificial technology that’s made using electricity and circuit boards

      I do believe relying on natural stuff and supplementing it with technology to enhance and / or expand upon a feature of a technology or to serve as a feature that cannot be attained by natural means

      Technology supplementation should only be really used when necessary