Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environmental cost

Re:Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environment... by Shivetya on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @12:26PM (#17860134)

plus there is still a lot of heating done with oil and even coal in some places. the temperature difference alone should point to heating being more expensive. (going from freezing to acceptable is a lot more energy than from hot to the same temperature).

throw in the added benefit of AC is humidity control and AC is just a win win tech.

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Re:Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environment... by SECProto on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @02:27PM (#17861436)

There's also a lot of heating done with wood stoves, burning renewable locally sourced wood, too. Depends a lot on local context.

Also, there's a lot less efficiency loss burning oil directly for heat, compared to burning oil for steam for 40% electricity which then gets turned into AC with some further efficiency loss. I expect the AC cooling might still come out on top, but not be nearly as much as implied.

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Re:Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environment... by Retric on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @01:05PM (#17860552)

Humility makes this less true than you would think. AC’s drip water because they condescend it from the air which takes lots of energy.

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Re:Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environment... by r_smart on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @01:49PM (#17861020)

I can't tell if this is a weird attempt at a pun, a funny typo, or some kind of koan.

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Re:Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environment... by BenFrantzDale on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @05:27PM (#17863063)

It’s not the heat it’s the humility.

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