I had a chili dog outside the tasty freeze once

Dianne? Is that you?

Good afternoon, y’all

Yawn.

Slept well today. Set an alarm for noon so I wouldn't. Slept right on through.

I dunno why you guys are so into animal cruelty these days. Give the damn puppy a sweater or turn down the damn air conditioning.....

jeez....

I always hated phrases referring to reduction in heat. I've never felt it was correct.

Turning up or down the power of a system designed to reduce temperature leads to a lot of inaccuracies in speech.

I intended to refer to the power of the AC, not the setting of the AC. Under those terms, reducing the AC power would allow the heat to increase.

but I'm fine with saying "increase the thermostat setting" if that makes you feel better.

Tomato - tomahto...

or you could just say turning up the a/c..

Oh good....

We should delve into the thermodynamics of it then. Because when we talk about A/C we're not talking about adding cold, but removing heat. The use of a heat pump and circulating air allows us to reduce the temperature in a space.

Now... before we go too far into Air Conditioning, we need to talk about the design of the modern living structure....

you are correct... cooling is actually removing heat.... but when we do that we are conditioning the air to our preference and comfort... that means either turning the thermostat up or down....

They really need to open the damn gyms.

Waiting on a response from Vic. This is riveting...

I mean, we could be talking about chilly dogs instead....

Your turn Vic...

the heat you feel coming out of the condensing unit used to be in da house.... that's how you know it's working...

When the freon is released from the condenser and then allowed to expand, that process is endothermic...

Vic. Come back. This is great...

Thanks for the support rfenst...

That's precisely what I meant by localized endothermic reactions.

But the entire process as a whole is exothermic.

Precisely what I meant by my earlier statement -
"Actually, the net effect of the air conditioning system is the addition of heat"...

So we're in agreement.

Excellent.

Now let's get into building materials, and how they evolved from early stone structures, to our modern double-layer insulated homes we have now, as well as how these structures impacted the development of A/C units.

Nuthin' better than a clean unit...

If you're talking total system overall you have to take into account increased power demand and resultant generation. Good majority of the grid is still steam driven turbines so definite heat release to atmosphere

TRIGGERED!!!!

That's actually a fair point in this silliness....

(why is it that drafter only makes salient points when the topic itself is ridiculous?)

The A/C unit itself doesn't have a temperature setting it cools to, just an on/off cycle which can vary the amount of on-time vs off-time