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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Yes your right should have been more clear. If AC moves hot air from a house. This hot air goes out then imagine hundreds of AC doing that. Would that in turn heat up the area around it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

As long as the temperature inside remains constant, as much cold leaks out as is transported inside. So the only residual heating outside would be from inefficiensies in the system, not the moving process itself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

To be extra clear: An AC transports the heat, not the hot air. It removes heat from the air and transfers that heat to the outside air.

There's also heat pumps that work with water instead of air. So they remove heat from the air and push it into water. This water can be a closed loop, or be open where the water is lost. It can also work the other way around where the heat pump takes heat from outside and pumps it into water, heating up the water to then be used for heating a home or taking a shower. There are also water-water pumps that work on water on both ends.

Because heat pumps pump the actual thermal energy, the medium doesn't really matter much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

You need some lessons in thermal dynamics my man.