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Air-conditioning accounted for 10% of electricity use last year, a proportion that continues to grow.
Great news,
then, that various new paints and other “radiative coatings” can reflect more energy than they absorb. Their prices are falling too; enough to make a new coat recoup its cost ever faster as the planet warms.
Germany must keep a cool head too, after the xenophobic populist-right Alternative for Germany took 44% of the vote in state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, its best-ever result. National leaders must not abandon reforms, and the man at the top, Friedrich Merz, needs to make a vigorous case for Germany’s traditional centrism, or
make room for a leader who will.
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