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I was talking with someone from Greece recently who was experiencing a heat wave and they dont have AC. I am from the south eastern US where we are basically re
by netcraft 2y ago
I was talking with someone from Greece recently who was experiencing a heat wave and they dont have AC. I am from the south eastern US where we are basically required to have AC for de-humidification as much as cooling - we would be overrun with mold and mildew without AC in the summer. Our heat indexes regularly reach 105F during the summer and sometimes much higher. I joked the other day that if our aquifers ever ran out of water we could probably get most of what we need with just a better dehumidifier.
Edit to add: just in case, you should never use water out of a dehumidifier for anything but grey water use cases unless you sanitize and purify it - it can make you very sick!
- jvanderbot 2y agoThat's not really a joke. Even in Minnesota summers, I pull 2 gallons every couple days out of our basement air. That's enough for me. I've given serious thought to putting a couple outside to capture water for our sprinkler system / gardening irrigation, if it weren't for this year's 100 year rains.
- ghaff 2y agoYeah, in New England I really need a dehumidifier in the basement. It's a bit damp in any case (old fieldstone) but the dehumidifier keeps it from getting really bad.
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- amykhar 2y agoIt would be cool if they could put some of this technology into commercial grade dehumidifiers even before they get put into HVAC systems. If you could run a super efficient portable dehumidifier and boost the performance of your HVAC system, it would be much faster to reduce overall energy consumption because it would be far less expensive than upgrading an entire HVAC system.
- vel0city 2y agoMost portable electronic dehumidifiers are just small AC units with the hot and cold side in the same room.
- sumtechguy 2y agoMy area is currently in drought. My yard is basically dead/hibernating. Except around the waste water outlet from my heat pump. That is nice and green.
- nojvek 2y agoThe irony is that in high humid climates, as the sun goes down and night gets cooler, that gets the humid air cool enough to turn into rain. So Florida is known as the sunshine state, but it's also the rainy state. It rains 2.5x more by inches than it does in Rainy Seattle.
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