• psud@aussie.zone
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      5 months ago

      Clothes-wise sure, we put it 100W at rest, we need only capture that.

      I really don’t get why you can still buy cooling-only air conditioners when any heat pump can work just as well in either direction

      Every aircon should heat or cool the indoor space as required

      Then it becomes easy to cool or warm at ~400% efficiency

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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        5 months ago

        As s far as window units go, one of the biggest losses is in insulation around the window.

        Those that have window units do so because there’s really no alternative.

        Would bi-directional window-mount ACs be effective heaters, given how much loss a window unit sees through drafts?

        • psud@aussie.zone
          1·
          5 months ago

          If it works for cooling there’s no reason it wouldn’t work for heating. If they need to stand in the air path for cooling they will need to stand in the air path for heat

    • TheFriar@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      It’s barely a season though. Summer and winter are months long. Any place that actually gets something akin to autumn anymore, itonly lasts for like a few weeks. If that. There are two seasons: summer and winter. They just have barely discernible transition periods which more often than not amount to a few days of back and forth weather, from nice for a day or two, back to the previous seasons temps, then lurching forward to the next, then back and forth with some median-“season” days mixed in mid swing.

      Thanks Shell, Exxon, BP, Koch industries, Lockheed, et al

      • Lila_Uraraka@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        5 months ago

        Yep, they fucked up the planet just to make more money. I’d rather buy an NFT made by an AI than give those people another penny, if I had a choice in the matter