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Nope. An AC just moves temperatures around. If it heats one area, it cools another.
Except it is not 100% efficient. It will have losses, which will add extra heat to the surrounding area over what was removed from the target area. Thus contributing to the increase of entropy in the universe. And bringing us one step closer to the heat death.
The real trick is to reverse-cycle your AC, and pump the heat into your home. Because of math and algorithms, this one trick will decrease entropy and take us further away from the heat death.
Man's forgetting the second law of thermodynamics: The ~~house~~ entropy always wins.
That's legitimately how heat pumps work, except without decreasing entropy unfortunately
Damn, I really thought we had it this time...
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