It's not the AC that are incredible. Modern heat pumps are incredible. They are the best thing since the sliced bread. I could talk for hours about heat pumps. They're just so efficient.
Heat pumps - they pump my heat.
Did I mention I like heat pumps?
It's literally the same machine
Non-native English speaker, but I looked it up the other day and it seems that pedantically an A/C only cools things down and heat pumps can both heat and cool.
ACs are just heat pumps where they forgot to install the reversing valve.
Heat pumps running in heating mode are basically ACs that are trying to cool down the outside. The fundamental technology just moves heat from one place to another, leaving one place warmer and one place colder.
This is also how fridges and freezers work - they have heat pumps that pump out the heat from inside their box and as such make the room they are in warmer.
Yes, an air conditioner is a heat pump with a fixed orientation, what basically equates to a handful of valves to switch the direction of the refrigerant. The actual expensive parts that generate the temperature difference are identical between the two machines.
You've surely seen one of the many videos from Technology Connections, then?
Im gonna have a nice long wank listening to this user passionately talk about heat pumps
Guns are fun as hell, it’s true. Unfortunately as with most things in the world, shit gets ruined because people don’t know how to act right
At 40 cents / kwh you learn to tolerate heat very quickly.
Heat is quickly becoming deadly around the globe. Better figure out how to budget that cost, asap.
I am at this point considered liberal, but I have to say that I do like guns. Range shooting is super fun. If I could I would take up competitive Three Gun as a hobby, but I don't have a course in my area.
Also, I hike with either my 45-70 ammunition rifle or my .45acp pistol with high grain ammo. Why? I live in Wyoming where we are definitely not on the top of the food chain. Even my pistol is liable to just piss off a bear if it really means business.
Yeah, I would definitely carry a .44 magnum in grizzly country.
Man, if you think target shooting is fun, wait until you go skeet or trap shooting! That's the most fun shooting there is IMO. Give it a try if you haven't already. I just bought a really nice Franchi over-under 20 gauge specifically for trap and skeet. It would make a great upland game bird gun too, but I don't really have any interest in that.
I hate guns, but alas there’s just no practical alternative for fulfilling my daily quota of wanton destruction.
But America is DC, Europe is already AC!
America is AC...
How is AC being a game changer surprising?? When it is hot I see my contacts in the UK sitting with icepacks in their laps or with fans all around them spraying themselves with water. Imagine if the whole room was just a tolerable temperature, it isn't hard to picture. Seems odd.
(Yes I get it just isn't a thing there and they have buildings older than time itself...but still....)
I just got hit by beryl, it is hell on earth here right now. Now power for two days so far with temps arouns 90-95 f andn%100 humidity. Sleeping is now considered a water sport and no ac in sight.
The worst part? You cant cool off even with a fan, there's too much humidity forntour sweat to evaporate and cool you. I wish i at least had cold drinks
I'm a US electrician who may move to Scotland within a decade. I'll hook up some mini splits for yall. Just gimme that NHS.
About to move to France, no one has AC there either but EVERYONE is about to buy them in huge numbers. Anyone know what manufacturers have the largest residential AC marketshare? That looks like a Mitsubishi. Definitely going to invest in those companies they're gonna explode.
I am not a financial advisor
I'm pretty sure that access to guns would instantly end my depression.
Honestly it's not that bad if the building is made right. Especially old stone houses that also happen to be surrounded by trees are absolutely godly in these scenarios (the down side is the heating bill in the winter :P or rather that used to be the downside...). I honestly wouldn't have ever considered an AC a couple years ago, but now that summer means a constant 30°C I'm reconsidering. Like bro, 30°C used to be a HOT exceptional couple days, not the entire summer!
AC always gives me a sore throat after couple of days, is that just me?
Air's dry. Try a humidifier
Fyi it could be filters need changing. Right now if we turn on the aircon at work, I get terribly sore throat that would last for days. Turns out they change/clean the filters only once a year, and it's even worse in some other rooms where it also smells bad.
Slap a humidifier in your room. Air conditioning is by its nature also a dehumidifier, so some people end up with overly dry and therfore eventually soar throats.
Like an engineer told me recently, the image of AC is biased in most of us towards the electricity-sucking devices of the previous century. Contemporary AC tech is to 1980s-90s AC what LED lightbulbs are to incandescent ones.
Yes. Like that.
Seems minisplits are becoming more popular. Saw a truckload of them on the interstate a while back
Got to shoot an assault rifle in the army. Would definitely buy one if I could.
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