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Re:Hacking Portable Air Conditioners by 293984j29384 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @10:06PM (#24025720)
This is a thing? I've lived in many apartments (moved yearly for a decade) and never heard of it.
Re:Hacking Portable Air Conditioners by EdJiang on Saturday August 01, 2020 @10:49PM (#24025917)
Yes. My apartment building in SF was part of a landmark legal case because many units stay over 80 degrees for large portions of the year due to poor consideration of solar factors. Usually only builders are sued for defective construction, in this case the architect was sued due to poor design.

We received funds but the funds were not enough to retrofit a 600-unit building with central A/C. However, the city of SF will not permit wall-mounted mini-split units nor window units in the building, since that’s a change to the facade. So we’re stuck with portable units...

https://aepronet.org/california-supreme-court-rules-against-...

https://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/2014/s...

Re:Hacking Portable Air Conditioners by mavhc on Monday August 03, 2020 @08:51PM (#24045330)
They'll be really annoyed when everywhere is flooded because they were wasting power, that'll change a lot of facades