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The more air conditioners in an area the hotter becomes around it. In turn increasing the demand for AC. Infinite money glitch. (self.showerthoughts)
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[–] hperrin 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

ACs also generate heat as a waste product (they’re not 100% efficient), but I’m not sure that actually heats up the surrounding area to a noticeable degree.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They're more than 100% efficient (they move more watts of heat than they produce), but they're less than ∞% efficient (they use Watts of energy still, so they still produce Watts of heat)

[–] hperrin 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

100% efficient would mean they do their job without any waste heat. They create waste heat, therefore they are not 100% efficient.

The only thing that is 100% efficient is an electric heater, because its job is to create heat, so it doesn’t create “waste heat”.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A heat pump can heat a home by more than the energy in the electricity it uses. It's more than 100% efficient at "converting electricity into heat in your home". It does that by not actually covering electricity but by moving heat, and it is less than 100% efficient at converting electricity into motion, and introduces some waste heat

[–] hperrin 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The efficiency of a machine isn’t measured at how effective its job is, but how efficiently it does that job. If it moved heat without producing any waste heat, it would be 100% efficient. If it produces any waste heat at all it’s not 100% efficient. No machine can ever be more than 100% efficient. That would violate the laws of thermodynamics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Hence why I clarified what it was efficient at doing.