What do the experts say about air conditioners making the outdoors too hot?
@lookatdesktop (27156)
Dallas, Texas
April 2, 2016 5:59pm CST
If global climate change is a man made phenomenon, then not only automobiles and factories causing it to happen but how about those air conditioners? Don't they send out a lot of hot air into the outdoors at a level that is significant enough to cause some level of glacier melting? Just a thought.
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@lookatdesktop (27156)
• Dallas, Texas
3 Apr 16
That is sad. I hope America knows what it is doing with these low energy LG window air conditioner units running 24/7 all over the place.
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@bounce58 (17380)
• Canada
3 Apr 16
I actually studied this in university -- refrigeration.
To make an area or a space cold (by refrigeration or air conditioners) you have to take away the heat in that space or area, and spew it out. All that heat being spewed out into the environment could definitely be a source of global warming.
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@lookatdesktop (27156)
• Dallas, Texas
3 Apr 16
@JolietJake , and from a scientific point of view, hot air is not exactly the same as CO2 because in and of itself hot air is not carbon dioxide but warm or hot oxygen/nitrogen and neither of these two gases creates the greenhouse effect am I right?
@lookatdesktop (27156)
• Dallas, Texas
3 Apr 16
@JolietJake . You are right. It is latent heat that has always been here naturally, not a form of gas that actually effects the way infrared light from the sun is reflected back up to the sky then back down on the earth causing heat energy by blocking it from escaping into the cosmos. Lol.
@paigea (36143)
• Canada
4 Apr 16
@JolietJake The hot air from the house may just be getting moved outside. But the electricity to run the air conditioners has to be created. Here in Alberta it is created by burning coal. I don't know how it is created everywhere, but one way or another something is often burned to create electricity
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@vandana7 (102698)
• India
3 Apr 16
Global warming as far as I can think now is because of additional tilt in the earth's axis. Not that other factors did not contribute. But natural phenomenons like earthquakes and volcanoes are far more devastating and can lead to earth's axis tilting as it did a few years ago.
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@carebear29 (32002)
• Wausau, Wisconsin
3 Apr 16
I use fans because an AC costs too much.
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@carebear29 (32002)
• Wausau, Wisconsin
3 Apr 16
@lookatdesktop Thank for the idea. I heard of it but never tried.
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@lookatdesktop (27156)
• Dallas, Texas
3 Apr 16
If you only have a fan you can place a tub of cold water in front of a box fan and it will transfer cooler air to you. You can refrigerate a bottle of ordinary tap water that you use for spraying plants and set in front of a fan and spray the ice cold mist of cold water and let the fan blow it on your face and it will quickly cool you off.
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@miniam (9151)
• Bern, Switzerland
3 Apr 16
@lookatdesktop
Water coolers are allowed
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@lookatdesktop (27156)
• Dallas, Texas
3 Apr 16
@miniam , I think water coolers are a great way to cool things off. In the 1960/s in Texas, they were used often in homes and were low energy users. We could go out and hose off the straw inside the outer walls of the cooler and there was a pump that poured cold water onto the straw and kept it damp and the air blew nice cool moist air into the house. This had one drawback, it increased the relative humidity in the home and could cause your bread to mold faster.
