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In the US, centralized AC is the norm in the numerous suburban houses. Newer apartment buildings in cities have centralized AC and window units are usually only
by blackguardx 9y ago
In the US, centralized AC is the norm in the numerous suburban houses. Newer apartment buildings in cities have centralized AC and window units are usually only used in older buildings.
- yxhuvud 9y agoYou are speaking centralized as in having one central unit for the building, are you not? I am speaking about having a big company, usually city-run, making the cool in a huge plant and then pump it out (in insulated pipes) to the rest of the city/town. The heat version of it is very common here in Sweden (for towns bigger than, say, 10k people) and it is a lot more efficient (and therefore, cheaper) than having heating units in the different buildings. We even have bigger data centers selling their spare heat from their cooling back to the heating systems.
- nerdshoe 9y agoDeep lake cooling is used in Toronto, Canada, though not widespread, and is offered by a private company. http://enwavetoronto.com/district_cooling_system.html http://enwavetoronto.com/district_cooling_system.html
- closeparen 9y agoUniversities often have one or more chiller plants that cool multiple buildings on campus (also boiler plants). Very large building-sized boiler and chiller plants served each half of my campus (probably less than a square mile in total). I'm not sure it would work at city scale.
- pinot 9y agoIt's called District Cooling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_cooling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_cooling