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You would need a huge number of solar panels and batteries to power an air conditioning unit. Dehumidifiers are far more energy efficient (removes the hot water
by olivermarks 7y ago
You would need a huge number of solar panels and batteries to power an air conditioning unit. Dehumidifiers are far more energy efficient (removes the hot water droplets suspended in air to cool air temp)
- volkl48 7y ago> Dehumidifiers are far more energy efficient (removes the hot water droplets suspended in air to cool air temp) Do you have some sort of citation for that? Because a dehumidifier is pretty much an air conditioner that doesn't make the room cooler from a mechanical perspective, so the premise that there's a wide gap in efficiency, or that the unit which blows it's heat indoors is the more effective one, seems unlikely to me.
- olivermarks 7y agoI was interested in off grid and RV vehicle AC solar, this video pretty much sums up how and where we are today on that. https://youtu.be/B0rZY5uotKI https://youtu.be/B0rZY5uotKI Others recommend dehumidifiers as a compromise which uses less power, you can find this in multiple discussions in relevant forums
- undersuit 7y agoI guess running dehumidifiers allows the human body to cool itself when exposed to the environment referenced in the article. While comfort from an air-conditioned room would still be nice I'll take mild discomfort over hyperthermia any day.
- hollerith 7y ago>removes the hot water droplets suspended in air to cool air temp First of all, most of the water is in gaseous form, i.e., vapor, not droplets. But even if it were in the form of droplets, the droplets would have to be small enough to remain in the air, and consequently just like the water vapor, they'd be in thermal equilibrium with all the other molecules of air with the result that removing them would not lower air temperature.