Nonsense, as soon as they get that Switch, they'll drag it into the kotatsu with them.
THE anti-kotatsuoo weapon is a central heating unit and proper housing insulation.
That's what the parental control app is for - they go in, you disable the Switch until they come out again. Especially if you carry the dock with you on expedition.
Maybe the insulation itself is vulnerable to being damaged in an earthquake, but the way you write it, you're saying that any house with insulation is absolutely guaranteed to be destroyed by even the smallest tremor.
It's not like places like, say, the coast of California don't have earthquakes all the time, and THEY use insulation.
Maybe the insulation itself is vulnerable to being damaged in an earthquake, but the way you write it, you're saying that any house with insulation is absolutely guaranteed to be destroyed by even the smallest tremor.
It's not like places like, say, the coast of California don't have earthquakes all the time, and THEY use insulation.
He might be talking about the gas lines often used to fuel central heat being a fire hazard in an earthquake and maybe he'd have a point... if many Japanese house didn't already have gas lines for their stoves and water heaters (or insanely even gas wall outlets to fuel portable heaters) and the space heaters often used weren't just as big if not a greater a hazard in an earthquake which they 100% are (electric heating is also a thing).
Central heating can be either gas or electric in California. All that is required is a large heating unit, fans, and ducts to get the hot air to the proper rooms.
Considering that California has about as many Earthquakes per year as Japan (both are on the Ring of Fire) the Japanese can build homes like the Americans do, but likely won't due to the islands being more densely populated verses California. California is a little bit larger in terms of land mass than Japan and has only about a third the number of people in it.
Central heating can be either gas or electric in California. All that is required is a large heating unit, fans, and ducts to get the hot air to the proper rooms.
Considering that California has about as many Earthquakes per year as Japan (both are on the Ring of Fire) the Japanese can build homes like the Americans do, but likely won't due to the islands being more densely populated verses California. California is a little bit larger in terms of land mass than Japan and has only about a third the number of people in it.
While not wrong factually, saying Japan has more population necessarily supports the conclusion that most Japanese people live in more densely populated areas than most Californians on its own. California has large areas of extremely low-density rural areas with a few extremely populated areas... and so does Japan. People don't live on mountaintops, and mountains stop the rain, so past the coast, California's really dry and generally has few people living anywhere. As an island, there's a lot more coast on Japan. You'd need to use different metrics to find the population density where the "average person lives" in each place.
For that matter, I don't see what population density has to do with insulation. If anything, living closer together generally means more apartments, which are far easier to centrally heat on a per-capita basis.
Tk3997 said:
He might be talking about the gas lines often used to fuel central heat being a fire hazard in an earthquake and maybe he'd have a point... if many Japanese house didn't already have gas lines for their stoves and water heaters (or insanely even gas wall outlets to fuel portable heaters) and the space heaters often used weren't just as big if not a greater a hazard in an earthquake which they 100% are (electric heating is also a thing).
Generally, I find far more electrical central heating systems like heat pumps than gas-powered ones, so that's what I was thinking about, but OK, I guess a gas-powered line is dangerous, but... yeah, it's not like there isn't gas-powered heating without the proper insulation and a central heating system.
ithekro said: Considering that California has about as many Earthquakes per year as Japan (both are on the Ring of Fire) the Japanese can build homes like the Americans do, but likely won't due to the islands being more densely populated verses California. California is a little bit larger in terms of land mass than Japan and has only about a third the number of people in it.
Density has fuck all to do with this because it's purely a problem of quality not quantity or volume. You can build an apartment block with central climate control and good insulation (sound and heat wise) in the exact same space as one with paper thin walls that ends up the same temperature as the exterior on a cold day and lets you hold a clear conversation with your next door neighbor, but one costs more and there frankly is the real reason for this nonsense: it's cheaper to build housing with thin walls, basically no insulation, and no plumbing for central heating. Thus, so as long as the builders can convince the population this is acceptable it's hugely in their interests to keep building like this.
It started right after the war obviously Japan needed allot of buildings fast and as you might expect what it built wasn't exactly four star quality, it was just accepted most of these buildings would only last a few decades. Thing is the real estate market managed to convince people that these fairly shoddy post war buildings were the norm so that when it came time to replace them... they replaced them with more cheap structures meant to last a similiar period of time at best. You thus ended up with a wasteful cycle were residences were built cheap with the full intention to be bulldozed in 20 to 30 years and thus their was almost no incentive to build them to last.
Buildings aren't investment they're treated like cars that immediately begin losing value once produced. It's no shock that with housing viewed as basically disposable comparatively little effort is put into many of these structures by most builders, and since most purchasers have only ever known drafty and flimsy Japanese housing they don't even realize how poor it actually is allowing the cycle to continue.
Hey! We're heading out on an expedition!So simple...Can't leave... the kotatsu...Going on about that again...I'd be real happy if you could, like, go buy some chips during the expedition, y'know?Daihatsu Landing CraftFlipNggh!Ta-dah!
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