Fact-check: Is air conditioning making cities hotter?
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A study found that waste heat generated by a city’s worth of air conditioners during a heatwave can raise the outside temperature by more than 2 degrees Celsius.
  • TehWorld@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Not just the AC. If we put a 20 amp load into a house with the washer and TV and lights and everything else, that energy has to Go SOMEWHERE, and eventually it pretty much all ends up as heat.

      • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Right, but the area the heat was removed from gets colder. When looking at the city as a whole, the transferred heat cancels out. The only heat added to the system is the additional energy used to transfer the heat.