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> Air conditioning has always been the proposition that “I’m cooling myself at somebody else’s expense. That's not much of an issue though: "For a 2014 paper,
by mrep 7y ago
> Air conditioning has always been the proposition that “I’m cooling myself at somebody else’s expense.
That's not much of an issue though: "For a 2014 paper, Francisco Salamanca and colleagues at Arizona State University modeled the effects of air conditioning on surface air temps in Phoenix. They found a nighttime increase of about 2°F (and nothing much during the day)" [0].
[0]: https://www.popsci.com/ask-us-anything-does-using-ac-make-it-hotter-outside/ https://www.popsci.com/ask-us-anything-does-using-ac-make-it...
- braythwayt 7y agoAnd yet, as I walk down the street in an older neighborhood with air conditioners in the transoms, I am hit by blasts of superheated air. I likewise also hear the noise (although in my lifetime air conditioners have gotten quieter, I suspect as a side-effect of air conditioners becoming more efficient). I guess I'm trying to say that the expression "at someone else's expense" not just a question of the surface temperature.