Hope this helps someone struggling to survive the heat
I installed both AC and solar panels when heat got too dangerous for my kids.
Yes, many everyday problems can be solved with money, money were literally invented for that exact purpose. Other problems can be solved with time, for example - trees need a fuckton of time to grow, but I still replaced most of the grass in my garden with trees and bushes. I will most likely never rest under their shade in my life, but is that really important to see the benefits fast?
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
There’s a ton of variants of this, and saying (in a form or another) apparently goes back to 1700s.
The new climate denial? Using wealth to insulate yourself from discomfort and change
Converting electricity into heat via silicon (ironically data centers turn electricity into heat with incredible efficiency) then moving that heat outside with HVAC units (heat exchangers again, the best way to move heat outside).
Then this sunufabich buys an ac
Unfortunately I bought a portable unit for my room. My reasoning, rooms gets to 38c and sleepless nights could mean sleeping through alarms, future health concerns and also, this heat won’t be going down any time soon.
Portable units are serviceable. Not nearly as good as split airco units but you can make them better by adding a second hose.
The air inlet for cooling the compressor needs to draw air in from outside instead of from the room the unit is in.
Hey one of you finally realize that air conditioning is necessary to sleep at night when it gets really hot, a problem which is only going to continue to grow worse thanks to climate change. At least until the ocean conveyor breaks completely and y’all start freezing your balls off like you live in Siberia.
Maybe invest in a reversible heat pump so you’re ready!
I wish; I rent, so it’s whatever they’ve given me - specifically a window unit currently.
wow a shocking amount of people here have no idea how AC works
It makes the air cold. What’s there to understand?
It makes the room cold unfortunately to make the room cold you have to whack a sodding great hole in your wall. You explain that to the landlord who doesn’t care about your comfort, but they could care immensely about the wall having a hold on it.
whack a sodding great hole
Ours have a hole about 50mm in diameter. It’s not going to bring your wall down and if you decide that you don’t need the efficient heating/cooling with minisplit-unit it’s easy enough to patch. I own the house, so I didn’t need to think nothing else than the location of the hole, but any sensible landlord would see a minisplit-unit as an increase of property value.
Do y’all not have windows?
Let me fix that for you. A shocking number of Europeans have no idea how AC works.
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!
I have just one thing to say: 🖕
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)
Protip: condensers function better when its cooler. You can save money by putting the condenser in the neighboring, air-conditioned apartments.
Which is why most people cant get one of these because their landlords are shitheads.
They make portable minisplits now.
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Yeah with the current heatwave that’s to be expected. Just get one during fall or winter, and be ready for the next year.
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…
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.
Yeah those are much more common and way cheaper, but also much less efficient.
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
Alexa! Please set the room temperature to 72F… Would you like that in degrees centigrade?
Sorry, I can’t hear you! I’m making too much cooling noise!
Alexa, it’s too hot!.. I stopped cooling so I could hear you better! Totally not to send that data to Google for precessing.
Alexa… Google…
Are you implying what I’m implying?
Have you tried not being hot?
Heat cannot legally enter your body without your consent.
If you open a window, that’s legally consent.
This is why we need “yes means yes”
If it’s legitimate heat, your body has ways of shutting that down.
Yes, that’s called death…
this is it. they’re trying
👄
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)
What is that?
Its called a heat pump or mini split. Really well made system for air conditioning.
Becoming more common in the states. Rest of the developed world already uses them.
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.
It is in fact literally the opposite of central, aka decentral
I consider these superior to central air due to its ability for zone control.
That would depend on just how many zones you want to control. If you have multiple rooms then you will need multiple mini splits. That adds up real fast. And multiple minis are more expensive to operate and maintain than one central HVAC system. Plus doors can be closed and duct vents can be adjusted easily.
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.
That’s not just a fun fact - it’s a useful fact :)
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.
Why don’t we solve global warming that way? Just put a bunch of A/C units outside and turn them all on in the summer! (/s, obvs)
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.
A whole cup, eh? Make sure he doesn’t spend all that internet in one place!
You’re doing gods work sir
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.
Nah, one way to think about it is that by having a lower melting point, it “holds” more of the cold from the freezer.
Maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t. But what you said was not a logical scientific argument.
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
More like a couple or three grand
Splits are unreasonably expensive, and since there is now a compressor sitting somewhere outside and a bunch of piping, more stuff to maintain/go wrong. I remember buying my condo and seeing the split and thinking how convenient it is, but little did I realize after ten years the whole thing would need replacing. For what it cost, I could buy a new 5000 BTU unit every year and throw it out and break even after ten years.
Yeah, you can hop into your time machine and go back to the 90s when you could get an AC installed for 850quid.
