Hope this helps someone struggling to survive the heat
So you volunteer to fund one for me and convince my landlord and the mayor to allows its installation ?
Don’t forget you need the compressor installed outside too!
What is that?
Central air conditioning, but designed better. It services individual rooms instead of taking the temperature of the entire house from one location and then distributing based on that.
That’s not what central air conditioning means. Central air conditioning has forced air ducts and a single chiller unit. This is called a mini-split or split unit system.
Got you, a fancy cold-blowy box :)
I think I’ve seen one of those once in an office somewhere - though I feel like that one blew out warm air instead/as well (I may be mistaken).
Fun fact about air conditioning units. They are basically a glorified heat pump. And many of the newer units that are being produced can pump heat into the house as well as pumping it out of the house.
They make my 2 fav things: air conditioners and the lancer evo final
Evo VI TME needs a word.
Source: I am old.
Oh that one can have a word with me anytime! Honestly id be happy with any Lancer
Any lancer or any evo specifically?
Because the standard lancer is pretty boring
My dream car (that i could most realistically get) is the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Final Edition 2016. I love Mitsubishi’s transmission and there’s just something about how the Lancer Evo Final looks. I love rally and ideally i’d love the Mitsubishi Lancer WRC (or anything from the Group B Rally era lol)
that’s only half of it
Shit, really? Wow, I’m on the edge of my seat waiting to find out the rest.
The electricity bill I’m guessing.
No, it’s a split ac, the other half is literally out of the picture(hopefully out of tne house)
Which is why most people cant get one of these because their landlords are shitheads.
They make portable minisplits now.
„Nicht verfügbar“
Or just portable, single unit ACs. I got one of those recently.
It blasts hot air through a duct that hopefully you’re able to direct outside while preventing outside air from getting in. Also noisy as heck, since the full unit is inside the house, and not as efficient as split units, but they do work…
Yeah those are much more common and way cheaper, but also much less efficient.
while preventing outside air from getting in
If that worked you’d slowly turn your dwelling into a vacuum chamber :-)
The same volume of air will enter your home in one way or the other, the important bit is that it’s cooler than the exhausted air. In particular you don’t want the hot exhaust to recirculate back in.
Ideally you’d get medium warm air from another room into yours, and warm outside air into an unoccupied room.
I see, like a heat pump.
Yes, ac is a heat pump that can only work in one direction of cooling.
Not necessarily, a lot can reverse and pump the heat inside
? It is a heat pump
Heat pumps are like heat pumps
Have you tried not being hot?
Heat cannot legally enter your body without your consent.
If it’s legitimate heat, your body has ways of shutting that down.
this is it. they’re trying
👄
Billionaires who want to boil the proles alive hate this one trick
I’m going to leave this running and open the Windows for a little while. Hope that helps all you folks out there.
You’re doing gods work sir
How considerate. For instance, my friend’s Internet went out today. I mailed him a cup of Internet, he should be good to go on Monday when it arrives.
Here in the USA, south Mississippi, it’s fucking hot as hell as well!
And unfortunately, we’re borrowing my mom’s car for now, waiting for a part we ordered for the truck to come in. Mom’s car has 4 windows, but only the front passenger window goes down, and no air conditioner… 🥵
I’ve taken to bringing a cooler with us, with bare minimum of 2 bottles of frozen fresh water, plus 2 bottles of frozen saturated saltwater.
Why frozen salt water? Well it’s definitely not for drinking, that’s for sure. But frozen saltwater freezes at like -10⁰C, which makes them excellent ice packs to keep things in the cooler extra cold for around 6 hours or so…
Stay cool out there everybody!
I think the salt is actually worse for keeping thing cool longer.
Most of the cooling capacity of the ice is in phase change from solid to liquid. The salt is moving it to -10 which means bigger gap from outside temperature. So the cold escapes quicker.
If you use normal water it will climb to 0 faster, but stay there longer.
You’re wrong, look up old school ways of making ice cream. Ask an old person if they remember biting into a salt crystal when having old fashioned ice cream.
Great. You’ve got a hypothesis. Now work on it this weekend and report to the class on Monday for a practical.
Much colligative
Man I’d love to have a spare £850 too
Yeah, you can hop into your time machine and go back to the 90s when you could get an AC installed for 850quid.
More like a couple or three grand
so you’re making the rest of us hotter >:(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island
You can always plant more trees, paint all the buildings brighter colors, live underground, or move north?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_daytime_radiative_cooling
PDRC can be contrasted with conventional compression-based cooling systems (e.g., air conditioners) that consume substantial amounts of energy, have a net heating effect (heating the outdoors more than cooling the indoors), require ready access to electric power and often employ coolants that deplete the ozone layer or have a strong greenhouse effect.
Yikes.
Heating the outdoors more than cooling the indoors
Yeah by like 400W which is peanuts compared to what the sun is doing
A typical air conditioner consumes 1kW, and on top of that heats the outside by however much the inside is cooled.
I don’t get the downvotes when you’re literally correct.
Air conditioning is literally just moving heat from one space to another even at scale the air conditioning from homes is not enough to make any meaningful difference.
Now if we want to get pedantic the stress that it puts on electrical grids that are not decarbonized and have to fire up natural gas and coal plants harder sure it is technically making everything else hotter
Dunno about your country but mine is far from 100% reneable
So if we ignore everything but the actual physical heat coming out of the radiator then yes, it’s really not that much, but unfortunately these units do not exist in a vacuum, and instead contribute to 3% of global emissions.
I’m running my air con in reverse cycle so the outside bit gets cold. Just doing my part to help offset old mates selfishness 🫡
Shit why didn’t I think of that
MHI makes the best shit!
Ok Boomer
