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Re:India heatwave temperatures pass 50 Celsius by wongarsu on Sunday June 02, 2019 @04:51PM (#20078089)
> In a scenario where you've filled the place with people, the interior humidity is going to exceed that of the exterior air and you'd just start dumping the moisture outside exchanging with the fresh, dryer air. It's a comfort regression sure, but not a everyone dies situation.

That's equivalent to opening a window without the AC doing anything. If that would work we wouldn't be in a "crowd everyone into a shopping center" type situation, the people would be just fine outside in the shade.

> It's a desert, not the tropics.

While half of India is in the tropics, this part indeed isn't. But next month the monsoon will put humidity at approximately 100% [1].

1: https://en.climate-data.org/asia/india/delhi/new-delhi-30/

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Re:India heatwave temperatures pass 50 Celsius by newnewpdro on Sunday June 02, 2019 @05:30PM (#20078376)
> That's equivalent to opening a window without the AC doing anything.

Even when the air temperature at your fresh air intake is cooler than the air at your condensor coil? Wouldn't we assume no system would draw its fresh air from near the condensor coil?

You still have a heat pump in the system, and there's a temperature difference between the air inlet and the pump outlet.

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