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If you live in this part of the Bay Area, you probably don’t have air conditioning (www.mercurynews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Two options:

You can just air condition one room with a window air conditioner or with a (less-efficient, but also can be put away) portable air conditioner. You don't have to air condition your entire residence. Just close the door to the air-conditioned room.

Depends a bit on where you are in the Bay Area, but the place mostly has pretty low humidity (especially the bits that get toasty). As long as your relative humidity is relatively low, you can get an evaporative cooler and keep windows open and air flowing, same way you were before. You can only cool so far with one, but it'll do more than fans. Much more energy-efficient than an air conditioner (though the flip side is that you need open windows and flow of fresh air with them, so you're constantly cooling air).

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=evaporative+cooler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler