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If you were to draw a box around a air conditioner and measure the neat heat input/output, you would measure a net heat output. An air condition is a net heatin
by thetruepickle 10y ago
If you were to draw a box around a air conditioner and measure the neat heat input/output, you would measure a net heat output. An air condition is a net heating device due to inefficiencies. Even if the power source is clean, excessive air conditioner usage has long term effects of adding heat to the atmosphere. An air conditioner is only one example. How it stacks up against global warming, I don't know, but it is not something to neglect.
- QuercusMax 10y agoI don't think you are correct. Take wind power: You're taking atmospheric energy, which comes from the sun originally, turning it into electricity, then turning that into heat (in the form of AC). You're merely moving the heat energy from the sun around; there's no net increase in heat.