While South Africa is known for its warm climate, our homes, schools, and businesses are unfortunately not set up to deal with the heat that increases each and every year.
The solid, concrete, and brick construction of many permanent structures in the country simply doesn’t lend itself to cooling solutions. Solutions like complete air conditioning have to drill through solid walls, carefully navigate expensive tile, and deal with inaccessible windows that are barred for safety reasons.
Even after an installation is complete, a home may not be properly insulated to make use of the new air conditioning, making the expensive process less impactful.
And money really is the name of the game here. These installations can cost tens of thousands to complete and that’s before the real killer gets you: the cost of operation. Even the most cutting-edge air conditioning systems (which are usually the most expensive…) still use an exorbitant amount of electricity.
While South Africa is currently enjoying a surplus of electricity with loadshedding seemingly behind us, that doesn’t mean the power is free. South Africans are being bled dry by high electricity costs to cover Eskom’s poor money management, and pricing is going up all the time. Recently, Nersa – a regulator that is supposed to protect citizens from abusive power costs – folded to Eskom and announced huge increases going into the future.
The frightening truth is that South Africans could be paying 36.15 percent more for electricity within less than two years.
So what can we do if air conditioning and similar full-home cooling options are so expensive? Xiaomi has the answer in the form of its range of Smart Fan options.