If air conditioner efficiency improves when it rains outside, why don't all air conditioners include water sprayers to help cool them?

Snow · 2019-07-22T07:36:51+00:00

I don't use the air conditioner when raining. The rain drop down the temperature already.

Snow · 2019-07-22T07:28:43+00:00

Post replies on my threads.

Snow · 2019-07-22T07:28:16+00:00

Yeah.

IamRedBeard · 2019-07-22T06:43:19+00:00

Well I'm here to help. I couldn't find an exact Mirror but the show is absolutely hilarious and is worth a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXs3pKG11Wg&list=PLiHi1Oj8JmYavg5o3zLF4OYkOCvIyfuSB&index=2

sodasplash · 2019-07-22T05:57:41+00:00

stood

Yes. I remember this being odd when I first heard it, too.

sodasplash · 2019-07-22T05:51:37+00:00

Employee?

sodasplash · 2019-07-22T05:51:16+00:00

That’s the point.

Zizzle · 2019-07-22T05:47:19+00:00

Unauthorized.tv

Timmy · 2019-07-22T05:44:50+00:00

One of the ISP's that received billions of dollars was Frontier, not a cable company, but a regional phone company that promised to install fiber for rural business and farmers. Every year they told customers that it was still in the works, wait until next year. In the meantime they suffered with 1-mbs DSL, which often was much slower. What Frontier actually did was buy up a bunch of rickety copper lines from Verizon thinking they can continue gouge land line customers, in an age of cell service So, they lost money. Was there ever any punishment for their fraud? Hell, no. All they have to do is keep promising that "someday" it will happen. The FCC says "we're all good then", It's a shame the US is so damned corrupted from corporations paying elected officials through lobby and PAC money.

SFinTX · 2019-07-22T05:42:15+00:00

Fact: it's considered an honor to die while in prayer in that religion. Many infirm or in ill health go to mosques in the hope of dying like this guy. That is why I titled it the way I did, because to them it is joy.

HeyImSancho · 2019-07-22T05:26:38+00:00

It's true that we live in a temporal world; hard life, easy life, bad life, or great life, the time we have here is limited. It's just a fact. Whether you think nothing matters, or everything matters; it's up to you, but all of our time grows shorter by each second of the clock; live your life to the fullest. Don't put things off until tomorrow that you can do today.

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-22T05:11:16+00:00

Where are you viewing this from?

It's unavailable.

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-22T05:08:31+00:00

This might be the best presidential talk I've heard this year.

Reddit_Sux · 2019-07-22T05:06:12+00:00

yeah this one still kinda gets to me... i mean ive seen it all and its not the content itself that faces me just the... its so fucking random yet so preciously accurate...

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-22T04:41:02+00:00

No mention of 9/11?

Also, how was Bigfoot ever a conspiracy? A conspiracy for an animal to avoid being caught?

RLS89ZX · 2019-07-22T04:40:49+00:00

WE SHOULD ALL BOYCOTT American Intelligence Media, that despicable lying YT channel, and all those Hideous lying Conservative Media Outlets like the plague. We need to expose those EVIL QANON MAGAtards for the RightWing Tyranny New World Order Shills they really are. Those Q scum are nothing but BIG FAT LIARS! I will root for James Corbett, & defend him alongside Derrick Broze + James Evan Pilato from those conservative Q MAGAtards.

XYY · 2019-07-22T03:54:12+00:00

looks like sand to me......and diddent look that strong

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-22T03:53:48+00:00

Do you have any doing duping delight videos of them?

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-22T03:50:03+00:00

If he was their IT administrator. That's very different from hacking.

That's the guy who set up you network, and email, and everything that those geezers couldn't dream of doing.

Do you think that the DNC wanted to start pizzagate?

That is real, and incriminates folks all the way up to the $65,000 in hotdogs purchased for Obama's White House "party".

Do you think all of that was fake?

I agree Wikileaks is a limited hangout.

He was a media darling, and that never happens to leakers, so he has some elite support.

I don't know if he knows he's a limited hangout. Or if he's in on the game.

tehreal · 2019-07-22T03:41:41+00:00

I saw this video a long time ago and often think about it. Life is precious.

tehreal · 2019-07-22T03:40:02+00:00

Do you post that in all of these videos? I think it's usually safe to assume that cliffs are strong.

x0x7 · 2019-07-22T02:54:16+00:00

https://tube.poal.co/watch?v=liP8uIcUAhI

x0x7 · 2019-07-22T02:52:41+00:00

Unmanned drones are probably the worst attack on the purpose of the 2nd Amendment. Also so we can blow up some people who aren't a threat to the US domestically, and so we can piss off enough people enough that they are now.

Negative defense utility.

Jesus · 2019-07-22T02:48:44+00:00

Again, can we prove that Rich was the hacker. His family, paraded on ABC and various news outlets, looked more like crisis actors than a real family.

XYY · 2019-07-22T02:22:50+00:00

yep, so whast wrong with that, i love to relax by plomping on the cauch infront of tv, and why should i listen to some1 with such a stupid mustage/forehead/glasses and sweater...and haircut

XYY · 2019-07-22T02:18:34+00:00

HA, i gues right, lol did not see your link - into water- after i post, sorry, but thanks

XYY · 2019-07-22T02:16:05+00:00

yep, really looked FAKe to me...prob. the chick falled some where into a lake and they replaced it with Vulcano and Lava

d3rr · 2019-07-22T01:58:40+00:00

Yeah your whole directory is owned by root. You should not be doing a sudo git clone, just a git clone, so user reddit owns it all. I'd delete it and re-do it.

dcjogger · 2019-07-22T01:57:32+00:00

Wow.

Americans are so enslaved that they think government agents are holy gods, but since the elites and the government are the same now, asking for government protection from businesses is like asking a thief to watch your house when you go on vacation.

FAA regulates airlines, but airplanes still fail.

https://www.greensboro.com/townnews/aeronautics/criticism-of-faa-mounts-as-other-nations-ground-boeing-jets/article_eb7b9bff-d7b4-5ac4-a161-193e06107c6f.html

SEC regulates stockbrokers, but markets still crash.

FDA regulates drugs, but drugs are still dangerous.

EPA regulates the environment, but the EPA pollutes.

https://dailycaller.com/2015/09/15/what-do-we-do-now-watch-epa-workers-unleash-toxic-waste-into-the-animas-river/

The USSR was a Socialist utopia, but the Soviet Union was polluted.

https://www.gerdludwig.com/stories/soviet-pollution-a-lethal-legacy/

Maybe the real reason there are laws against car repair is because car dealers lobby for them.

Maybe the real reason there are food stamps now is because food and banking corporations lobby for them.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/food-stamps-making-food-companies-fat/story?id=17166643

Maybe the real reason tax filing is so difficult is that tax preparation corporations lobby for complicated tax forms.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/taxes/turbotax-h-r-block-spend-millions-lobbying-us-keep-doing-n736386

Maybe the real reason there are laws against ridesharing is because taxi cab companies lobby for regulations against competition.

https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/local/20160128_Emails__Parking_Authority_worked_with_taxis_to_stop_Uber.html

Maybe the real reason there are mandatory vaccine laws now is because pharmaceutical corporations lobby for them.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2007-01-29-0701290104-story.html

Maybe the real reason the US is a police state now is because private prison corporations lobby for it.

Maybe the real reason the US is a warmonger now is because defense corporations lobby for wars.

Maybe the real reason there are mandatory health and auto insurance laws now is because insurance companies lobby for them.

Maybe the real reason there are bailouts and subsidies is because corporations lobby for them.

Maybe the real reason there are government student loans and grants now is because colleges lobby for them.

The government takes away your freedom, but won’t protect you.

The way to deal with danger today is to do what worked in the past.

Government needs to be small and people need to take personal responsibility and embrace freedom.

Being dangerous is not in the best of companies.

The big difference between private business and tyranny is that you can boycott the free market, but the government forces you at gunpoint to do something or not do something.

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

What do we need government for anyway?

Everything the free market does is better than what government does.

Would you rather graduate from Harvard or the University of New Mexico? Would you rather own a Yugo or a BMW?

If a private association like the MPAA can regulate movies, why can’t the private market regulate other things?

When the TSA fingers your asshole and pulls your cock, is the real purpose to protect you or to make you feel like a degraded slave?

When people smoke now, people just call the police on them, but people in the past either took some personal responsibility and ignored smokers, moved away from smokers, or asked smokers to go somewhere else. The problem with a police state is everyone now is either or a slave or a criminal. Who pays the taxes to pay for tyranny?

If smoking is dangerous, can’t nonprofits raise funds to pay for educational campaigns that warn of the dangers of smoking instead of outlawing smoking?

Can’t people use the BBB to verify if a business is good or not instead of forcing companies to pay fees to get a government business license?

https://www.bbb.org

Can’t private charities funded by volunteer donations provide homeless shelters and soup kitchens instead of being at forced at the point of a gun by the government to pay taxes that fund welfare?

https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/news/the-salvation-army-ranks-high-on-new-lists-of-americas-top-charities/

Can’t people use guns to protect themselves instead of relying on the Gestapo?

https://nypost.com/2017/08/04/alaskan-town-doing-just-fine-after-losing-entire-police-force/

Can’t neighbourhoods hire private security firms to protect their homes?

https://dksecurity.com

Can’t the free market provide toll roads?

https://portcitydaily.com/local-news/2018/06/03/private-toll-road-near-surf-city-deemed-a-success-by-road-maintenance-organization/

Can’t the free market provide private airports?

https://www.oceanreef.com/amenities/private-airport/

Can’t the free market provide private schools?

https://www.privateschoolreview.com/school-size-stats/wisconsin

Can’t the free market provide disaster relief instead of FEMA?

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/29/us/harvey-cajun-navy/index.html

Can’t the free market run delivery services instead of the USPS?

https://www.fedex.com/global/choose-location.html

Can’t the free market run railroads instead of Amtrack?

https://skift.com/2015/08/08/the-u-s-s-first-private-passenger-rail-in-30-years-departs-in-2017/

Think.

portcity · 2019-07-22T01:49:00+00:00

ls -la ~/lounge-autoconnect

Yup: https://pastebin.com/zA0ni0EM

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-22T01:47:40+00:00

Did this happen today? The Seth Rich ban?

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-22T01:47:08+00:00

They forgot to include Pastafarianism...

:-/

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-22T01:43:34+00:00

They must have forgotten that Russia's only Mediterranean naval base was in Syria.

If they thought there Russians would give that up then they're stupid AF!

Also, they're stupid.

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-22T01:40:37+00:00

Does your sub accept dank memes?

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-22T01:36:20+00:00

Definitely go with the attic fan.

The attic fan should blow the air in the attic to the outside.
There should be a separate vent in the attic that allows air to be drawn from the outside in.
The fan will create negative pressure (it's actually not negative) inside the attic, which will draw in cooler air.

The same applies in your house with window fans. Open windows in separate rooms/areas. Blow the hotter air out of the house (from the hot room, which is typically upstairs or a sun lit room) and let the colder exterior air draw in from the other room.

Blowing cool air into the house is much less effective.

Allow the negative pressure to work for you.

d3rr · 2019-07-22T01:35:17+00:00

touch: cannot touch ‘thelounge.log’: Permission denied

It sounds like your TheLounge folder isn't owned by you?

$ ls -la ~/lounge-autoconnect

i_cansmellthat · 2019-07-22T01:29:39+00:00

I've got 20 minutes, replies to comments or posts? Just so you know, I'm a little tipsy and sunburnt, so maybe not quality stuff on my part. But willing to help :)

What kind of stuff do you want on the sub?

portcity · 2019-07-22T01:27:41+00:00

cd ~/lounge-autoconnect

reddit@redditclone:~$ cd ~/lounge-autoconnect
reddit@redditclone:~/lounge-autoconnect$ touch thelounge.log
touch: cannot touch ‘thelounge.log’: Permission denied

Ok, I used those commands above to remove the lounge from user: chatuser.

elle_owo_elle · 2019-07-22T01:20:10+00:00

Shit I just realized I left my box of memes somewhere on Reddit!

Oneda · 2019-07-22T01:18:30+00:00

Perfect example of wrong place, wrong time. Out of all the seconds on the clock that the brick truck and the victim's car could have been on the road, they just had to be there at that exact moment.

Sometimes, all that you have lived for, all that you have worked for, could be ended with a very random senseless occurrence such as this.

XYY · 2019-07-22T01:17:29+00:00

(again) arrogant and dumb - natural selection

XYY · 2019-07-22T01:16:02+00:00

this is why you ALWAYs should walk on the oposite site of the road, so yeh can see it coming...ps dont looks intentional to me, driver goes ofline slowly and way before the impact, looks more like some 1 who`s texting or busy with radio etc. or maybe passed out, also after impact car keeps riding on grass, and dosnt go back to road imidiatly, so prob. some1 passed out

Oneda · 2019-07-22T01:12:45+00:00

Man: Out of the way little sign post that tells me not to walk on the edge! (hits sign post)

Sign Post: Did you just hit me? Why you... (hits back)

Man: YIKES! (gets eaten by train)

Sign Post: You saw this coming, it's literally painted on me bro!

The_In-Betweener · 2019-07-22T01:12:38+00:00

Paul explains that it is essentially a blank check untill 2097. We can certainly keep our obligation to these people and still recognize government spending turns into waste if not properly managed.

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-22T01:12:29+00:00

No prob! Glad to help. ;-)

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-22T01:11:01+00:00

Yep.

IT'S OVER THE TOP BOGUS!!!

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-22T01:09:59+00:00

I agree about Wikileaks.

d3rr · 2019-07-22T01:09:39+00:00

try:

$ cd ~/lounge-autoconnect
$ touch thelounge.log

Aka make sure thelounge.log exists and isn't owned by root.

With removing TheLounge, it wasn't really installed like a proper unix app, so to removing it is just this afaik:

$ sudo rm -rf /home/chatuser/.lounge
$ sudo rm -rf /home/chatuser/lounge-autoconnect

XYY · 2019-07-22T01:08:59+00:00

is this a Fetish?

XYY · 2019-07-22T01:07:17+00:00

arrogant and dumb - naturall selection

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-22T01:05:45+00:00

I'm a wainwright, with a cobbler minor.

;-)

XYY · 2019-07-22T01:05:38+00:00

trailer for new TV series "Body Cam - Fireman"

Horrux · 2019-07-22T01:02:21+00:00

Very important to know and acknowledge this stuff.

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-22T01:00:54+00:00

Try the same experiment with a mister than can be directed at the cooling fins.

Dumping a gallon of water is a waste.

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-22T00:55:31+00:00

It's way better than that.

That method is for heating water. Evaporation draws many times more heat energy away. Many.

The transition from liquid to gas is 540x the energy to raise the same mass 1 deg C.

You get the best results from evaporation. Your body cools when sweat evaporates. If it doesn't evaporate then you're hot and miserable.

Fans don't cool, but increase the rate of thermal transfer (increased air mass in physical contact per unit time), which also increases the evaporation rate. Moving air can also hold more moisture (from memory, needs verification).

Snow · 2019-07-22T00:54:23+00:00

https://invidio.us/watch?v=L8Fni5fmdjA

Seirios/Rurutia

Jesus · 2019-07-22T00:49:41+00:00

It was the most overt drill of all PSYOPs. All the leaked RAW footage and HD photos of the smoke bomb illustrate this. You had people laying over the bomb and were completely fine, whilst peopel run to the bomb site minutes after and lay down, applying moulage.

Jesus · 2019-07-22T00:47:11+00:00

Nah, the whole thing was a psyop from the start. Russia didn't hack crap, Rich didn't leak anything and wikileaks is a limited hangout.

Snow · 2019-07-22T00:46:30+00:00

https://invidio.us/watch?v=9jvpQDdzo3s

Spirits/KOKIA

OmegaUser296 · 2019-07-22T00:46:12+00:00

By the way I might decide to update the contents of Mod Toolbox as it's currently built on Mod Toolbox 3.5. I might upgrade it to be up to date with the Mod Toolbox for Reddit's latest version if I get around to it as I would have to basically do all the same stuff again but for almost completely different code.

magnora7 · 2019-07-22T00:44:32+00:00

So I looked it up, it takes 2.45 Wh to raise the temperature of one gallon by one degree F. So if the water goes from 80F to 120F, that's 98 Wh. That's remarkably close to the 100 Wh break-even.

So if you had access to cheap water, or had expensive electricity, this might actually save money and use less energy overall. Or if the water delta is more than 40 degrees, that'd made it cost effective too.

magnora7 · 2019-07-22T00:40:17+00:00

It's kind of similar but not exactly the same. It's like a combination of both. I never thought of it that way though, interesting link thanks

magnora7 · 2019-07-22T00:34:12+00:00

Yeah I might get an attic fan, I was looking in to that today too. My temp gun read out 165F on the attic ceiling, and 145F on the floor. Pretty dang hot.

I tried a little experiment and put a gallon of water on the external unit. It cooled it from 140F to 95F, and it evaporated in about 90 seconds because of the heat. Then about 20 minutes later it was back up to 140F.

From a cost perspective, a gallon of water costs 1 cent. 1 cent of electricity is 100Wh. I think it'd be very hard to save 100Wh with one gallon going from 80F to 140F, not sure how many Joules (or watt-hours) that is.

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-22T00:31:59+00:00

The inside coil causes interior air to condense. If this condensed moisture doesn't drain adequately, or if it evaporates again then it can remain humid and mold can build up.

You could add a fan with a timer for ventilation, similar to what you find in bathrooms (a daily timer).

magnora7 · 2019-07-22T00:30:43+00:00

Haha that's a good idea, I might actually do it with one of those

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-22T00:27:46+00:00

Water is cheap. A cool interior is priceless.

Edit:

even more energy usage in places which use desalination plants for water.

If you live in one of these areas then evaporative ac is available.

Snow · 2019-07-22T00:23:21+00:00

Can someone open the same sub on saidit?

portcity · 2019-07-21T23:58:39+00:00

Ok I did everything all over again, installing The Lounge in user: reddit, and I got the exact same permission denied problem (see the results of ls -la in this pastebin: https://pastebin.com/3efUw36U The only thing I haven't done is I haven't updated the certificate so that the Lounge certificate is the same as the Unrealircd cerfificate (because I've been following the instructions to the letter and the instructions say to use the certificate with the word "snakeoil" in it.

I also installed Node and curl on user:reddit.

I'm also not totally sure how to remove installed packages? I know about rm -rf but that didn't seem to work on removing the lounge from chatuser. Like maybe I don't know the exact paths?

dark_devil_dd · 2019-07-21T23:54:05+00:00

This guy thermodynamics. 👍

Did u study chemistry or engineering?

wendolynne · 2019-07-21T23:49:34+00:00

there are such things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler

dark_devil_dd · 2019-07-21T23:42:06+00:00

Thank you, I'll look in to it later.

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-21T23:41:44+00:00

Mold typical isn't a problem outside. Mold hates sunlight.

Water damage to foundations is a fucking disaster, and should be avoided at all costs.

This is also why it's essential to run an AC on fan only for 20-30 mins before you shut it off, so that any condensate on the coil evaporates.

This is true, but it applys to the inside coils. The address to sets.

Evaporation (inside): draws heat into it from evaporation.
Condensation (outside): compressed to give off heat to the exterior.

This is why portable ac is crap. Both inside.

Cool the exterior condensation coils.
You could shade the outside ac. The fan will blow crap up under it. There's generally a good reason that there things aren't common.

Consider a low hanging trellis...? With thick beams for Max shade...?

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-21T23:30:02+00:00

And the high heat would also guarantee the water would all evaporate quickly so it wouldn't hang around for too long

Not necessarily. It depends on the weather conditions.

If it's a humid day then the evaporation rate drops quickly,. Adding water on a 90 deg day with 85 deg dew point won't get you much.

All machine efficiency depends on your ∆T. So it will always work better on hot days with cooler water. If it's extremely humid then the evaporation rate will be lower.

Evaporation absorbs the most heat energy. 1cal raises 1g of liquid water 1deg C.
The latent heat required to evaporate 1 g of 100 deg C water to 1g of 100 deg C steam is 540 Cal/g. Same situation with ice to water is 80 Cal/g.

Do you have insulation in your attic? Check the R value for efficiency.

If not, then that helps quite a bit. Also, attic ventilation. Get a attic fan that you can use to increase ventilation. Particularly at night when the outside is much cooler.

Moving air transfers heat away if. Static air insulates (tiny pockets is air in Styrofoam). Sometimes the attic fan works against you. It depends.

FormosaOolong · 2019-07-21T23:11:15+00:00

Hey, thanks for the link to that tool! Mine came super bent and I had no idea such a thing existed

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-21T23:09:57+00:00

Numerous. Look here for more info.

http://www.arkancide.com

FormosaOolong · 2019-07-21T23:09:32+00:00

the hick solution: http://blog.pcpools.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/garden-hose-with-sprinkler.jpg

Mnemonic · 2019-07-21T23:08:27+00:00

Horselover Fat (from V.A.L.I.S.)
Thomas A. Anderson (from The Matrix Trilogy)
Batch 5 (from V for Vendetta: the comic, which is also much more scifi than the movie)
Dr. Jonathan Osterman (from Watchmen, again the comic)
Michael Moran (from Marvelman/Miracleman: The Alan Moore years)
Johnny (Johnny Mnemonic)

magnora7 · 2019-07-21T23:05:29+00:00

Haha I might try it out on my AC. I mean I could literally just spray it with my hose sprayer by hand and measure the efficiency difference I think, to test it out. Then build a little control circuit with one of those electronic water hose switch boxes and a hose to the spigot

If it works that'd be amazing. I guess the efficiency from rain is already proven. It's just a matter of if it's more cost effective for the water use vs energy savings

FormosaOolong · 2019-07-21T23:04:32+00:00

Noice! Now go collect all your money!

magnora7 · 2019-07-21T23:01:54+00:00

Haha. I see what you mean.

I'm simply imagining a small hose that does a tiny mist to simulate rain, just above the outside unit, only while it's running, and only when the outside temp is over 85F.

I think that might avoid the mold issues.

magnora7 · 2019-07-21T22:59:53+00:00

Interesting post. A few months ago I had the idea to make a "levels of freedom chart" like this, and you reminded me of it:

Level 0: Actual slavery

Level 1: Debt slavery

Level 2: Wage slavery

Level 3: Slavery to social pressure

Level 4: Slavery to one's own moods and feelings

Level 5: Slavery to one's own ego (I define ego as the story you tell yourself, about yourself)

Level 6: ??

FormosaOolong · 2019-07-21T22:59:41+00:00

Yes, that's true. I'm not an engineer of any kind, but my lame user inspections of my two units (mold makes me sick so I peek in there a lot) indicates that the only thing separating the indoor recirculating parts and the outdoor bits where the outlet fan is, is a thick piece of styrofoam. I would hate to have mycotoxin creep.

Of course the box outside is exposed to all the elements, and includes channels that with the correct pitch ditches the water it accumulates. So there's no reason I guess they couldn't make some kind of misting system that repurposes the water eliminated from the indoor space. I'd pass on that model myself though, as I'm already OCD with my current units.

ETA: All that said, you still may have a million-dollar patent right there!

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-21T22:51:28+00:00

The DNC operative who was shot point blank on a DC street

Operative? He was a patriot, and a whistleblower who saw that the DNC was rigging American democracy.

magnora7 · 2019-07-21T22:50:54+00:00

Good guess but it doesn't work quite like that. It's very interesting, check it out: https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QXc1_R_aCCg/V3VnKmxM91I/AAAAAAAAARc/0nYP3Gw9niIMJdPSxD_IK0DZFuD64N9MgCLcB/s1600/CR-BG-Central-Air-Browser-Illo.jpg

We're talking about removing heat from the condenser, #3 in the diagram. Which is normally done with just dry air outside, and a fan, and a radiator. But if you sprayed some water on there too, the heat might leave even more quickly...

magnora7 · 2019-07-21T22:47:35+00:00

Interesting analysis.

Maybe it could only be activated on super-hot days, when the efficiency gains would be particularly high? And the high heat would also guarantee the water would all evaporate quickly so it wouldn't hang around for too long, which seems the source of a lot of the problems.

magnora7 · 2019-07-21T22:45:41+00:00

This isn't the part that draws in air though. It's just the part that gets rid of the heat. So even if it filled with mold it wouldn't affect the air supply. The air that you breathe is re-circulated within the house only. But that's a good point about the mold. I guess (I would hope) it would dry out between runs, when it shuts off for 30 minutes or whatever.

magnora7 · 2019-07-21T22:44:16+00:00

But just from a cost perspective, if you can use 10 cents of water and save 30 cents of electricity, then that's a net benefit cost-wise. Which means it consumes less energy overall, which is better for the earth

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-21T22:43:31+00:00

happysmash27 · 2019-07-21T22:43:03+00:00

You might get permabanned without warning too, even if it is a community you usually agree with.

d3rr · 2019-07-21T22:41:22+00:00

Well if you go the 'reddit' user route, you'd need to reinstall TheLounge. On comments here, you can indent with 4 spaces if you want to make it monospaced code style.

Anway.... lets do

$ sudo chown -R chatuser:chatuser /home/chatuser/.lounge

And then try to start TheLounge again, then give me the output. You could also delete /home/chatuser/.lounge and /home/chatuser/lounge-autoconnect and start over and be careful not to run anything as root.

happysmash27 · 2019-07-21T22:40:45+00:00

It might be more efficient in terms of electricity, but wouldn't it be less efficient in terms of water usage? That's a big problem in draught-prone areas, and might result in even more energy usage in places which use desalination plants for water.

FormosaOolong · 2019-07-21T22:24:36+00:00

FYI stupid automatic internet censors flag this link as a malware site.

IamRedBeard · 2019-07-21T22:24:15+00:00

We need to reenact the Fairness Doctrine and get news back to being news. FOX and CNN both are propaganda machines and poisonous to our country.

FormosaOolong · 2019-07-21T22:22:44+00:00

Probably mold. It's the last thing you'd want to be growing inside your unit to spew all over your house. This is also why it's essential to run an AC on fan only for 20-30 mins before you shut it off, so that any condensate on the coil evaporates.

FormosaOolong · 2019-07-21T22:19:15+00:00

Total garbage. I haven't logged in since I migrated to this sweet oasis. Buh-bye, corporate social engineering matrix.

dark_devil_dd · 2019-07-21T22:16:24+00:00

It isn't exactly on their criminal record...

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-21T22:12:44+00:00

My educated guess:

This addition would likely require regular cleaning so contamination (dust, pollen, etc.) doesn't accumulate in the radiator cooling fins.

Plus the evaporation rate depends:

on the RH of the air.
exposure to sunlight
Air temp.
Air flow

So you'd want a way of controlling the rate of water flow; adjusting for these floating variables.

Also, the water would generally need to be drawn through the sides, and blown up/out. This isn't an difficult obstacle, but it would change the design.

Plus, the liability of water damage from:

poor installation
leakage
neighbor kids screwing with it
Damage/wear from increased thermal cycling (cold water of hot surfaces) literally rinse and repeat.
etc.

Plus the warranty risks associated. Adding water to anything creates problems.

Also, it reduces profitability for the energy companies.

It's a good idea. On hot days you could momentarily boost you efficiency by spraying down you external ac unit, but it will evaporate quickly.

If your ac fins are bent then you could buy one of these to straighten bent fins and increase the air flow.

You could also winterize your windows to reduce leakage and basically add an extra insulating later to your windows.

This is all shooting from the hip guesses.

I'm not an AC engineer...

Good luck!

Edit:.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler

Evaporative cooling is especially well suited for climates where the air is hot and humidity is low.

portcity · 2019-07-21T21:55:33+00:00

Running it as user 'reddit' I get "no such file or directory'

portcity · 2019-07-21T21:52:17+00:00

ls -la /home/chatuser/.lounge

I'm not totally sure how to read this. Also, my formatting gets removed so it makes it harder for you to read this:

chatuser@redditclone:~/lounge-autoconnect$ ls -la /home/chatuser/.lounge total 24 drwx------ 4 chatuser root 4096 Jul 21 03:36 . drwxr-xr-x 10 chatuser chatuser 4096 Jul 21 03:01 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 chatuser root 7801 Jul 21 03:42 config.js drwxr-xr-x 2 chatuser root 4096 Jul 21 00:37 storage drwxr-xr-x 2 chatuser root 4096 Jul 21 03:44 users

Tom_Bombadil · 2019-07-21T21:40:00+00:00

It's hard to say when they have so many proven ties with more that Israel.

Well, the source I cited precedes the topic by +20 years.

Also, I'm sure you'd agree that it's an uncanny coincidence that ISIS has ties with everyone that Israel has ties with.