Yes - in the Summer many UK homes could benefit from air conditioning, particularly in southern and eastern areas and is global temperatures increase with longer, hotter, dryer Summer months. Also, most modern air conditioning units function as heat pumps, meaning they can be used in winter as part of a heating system.
Stromness
Stromness is the second-most heavily populated community in Orkney, Scotland. It remains in the southwestern part of Landmass Orkney. It is a burgh with a parish around the outside with the community of Stromness as its capital. A long-established seaport, Stromness has a population of roughly 2,190 residents. The old town is gathered along the characterful as well as winding major street, flanked by residences and also stores built from local stone, with narrow lanes and streets branching off it. There is a ferryboat web link from Stromness to Scrabster on the north coastline of mainland Scotland. First recorded as the site of an inn in the 16th century, Stromness became vital throughout the late seventeenth century, when Great Britain went to war with France and also delivery was forced to stay clear of the English Channel. Ships of the Hudson's Bay Company were regular site visitors, as were whaling fleets. Great deals of Orkneymen, many of whom came from the Stromness area, worked as traders, travelers as well as seamen for both. Captain Cook's ships, Discovery and also Resolution, called at the community in 1780 on their return trip from the Hawaiian Islands, where Captain Cook had been killed. Stromness Gallery mirrors these facets of the town's history (presenting as an example crucial collections of whaling relics, and Inuit artefacts brought back as keepsakes by neighborhood guys from Greenland as well as Arctic Canada). An unusual facet of the community's character is the a great deal of structures enhanced with display screens of whale bones outside them. At Stromness Pierhead is a commemorative statue by North Ronaldsay carver Ian Scott, unveiled in 2013, of John Rae standing erect, with an engraving defining him as "the discoverer of the final link in the first navigable Northwest Passage".
