To be fair, the physics that makes refrigeration work does feel like you're manipulating primal forces like a wizard
You are literally pumping hot outside.
While utilizing the physics of pressurized coolants that prefer to be gasses around your house.
so, magic.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
And you can reverse the process, pumping heat inside instead, even when it's freezing outside! Magic, I tell you.
Do not upset Maxwell's demon when you're down there sorting the cold atoms from the hot ones!
The air is hot because it's moving around a bunch.
The air gets fanned over some coils filled with coolant.
The coolant gets heated and starts moving around a bunch causing it to move through the coil through some insulation foam to the outside half.
Once it nears the end of the loop it has to go through the compressor.
The compressor squishes the moving coolant and now it can't move around as much, all the heat gets dissipated into the surrounding outside air.
The compressor lets the cooled coolant go back through to the inside.
Process Repeats with diminishing returns.
Wizard_Fucking_Magic
There's a tank of cold inside. Its the primary export of northern European countries and sustains nearly their entire economies since the only other thing they can "make" is fucking rotten fish. Its important to recycle your AC every 3 years before it runs out of cold by throwing it into the ocean where it can return to be made into glaciers.
Well, because you didn't add a /s to your comment, some day it will end up as an answer spewed out by some LLM, as absolutely factual.
Let's hope people won't get so reliant on LLMs and so uncritical they follow through
I see no downsides
This anti-swedish sentiment makes you look like a Dane.
That's impossible. Everyone knows that Danes can't communicate.
Shove the hot out the window. *taps head
Literally how it works, too.
Heat pumps really are amazing tech. What if I tell you that this is also how your fridge works. Crazy, right?
They are also one of the few things that are more than 100% energy efficient.
300% to be exact. Because it uses some natural phenomena that just needs a little jump start and then can be maintained with little energy for massive air movement.
That efficiency metric doesn't really reflect what's going on. Of course moving stuff around is easier than heating it.
Some are as high as 510% efficient
"all of the sudden"
Disregard
ICP frequenting 4chan?
Turn it around to cool the outside. Global warning solved.
Seriously, that would have to work better than those giant fans they're building offshore.
Ooh, I've always wondered what those were for. Makes sense.
They actually have a dual purpose, the second being killing seagulls.
I heard they kill whales too.
Actually a more efficient electric heater. This is known as an heat pump, aka reverse AC
Heat pump was one of the inventions I thought of in my childhood and was like "oh, it actually works and is good" as an adult.
Of course, the child version was along the lines of "what if we take fridge, put the cold end out and hot end in", but you see the point.
phase change refrigerant loops baby!
Technically it's a uni directional heat pump. But we're just abusing the basic laws of thermodynamics. Fluids when compressed, heat up, and when expanded, cool down. Compress it, it heats up, cool it down, and then expand it, and suddenly, boom sub ambient cooling has been achieved. (the phase change happens in between to maximize effectiveness/efficiency)
Through the magic of the latent heat of vaporization
i feel technologically connected right now
♫ thermodynamically smooth jazz ♫
Hot air goes out, cool air goes in. You can't explain that.
LOL 😅...so you got a cup of coffee ☕, you wait, it gets cold 🥶....how is that even possible?!!!
Magnets!
this video from 'technology connections' explains it quite well ^^
I love how mad he gets at single duct in room units too. Rightfully so.
who has a window like that
it adds heat to the system to make more cold. duh. global warming solved. stupid enviromentards.
By boiling special magical water
Physics, dog
Maxwell’s demon lives in there.
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