Shit, really? Wow, I'm on the edge of my seat waiting to find out the rest.

Heat cannot legally enter your body without your consent.

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I'm going to leave this running and open the Windows for a little while. Hope that helps all you folks out there.

Evo VI TME needs a word.

Source: I am old.

Don't forget you need the compressor installed outside too!

More like a couple or three grand

Yeah, you can hop into your time machine and go back to the 90s when you could get an AC installed for 850quid.

I think the salt is actually worse for keeping thing cool longer.

Most of the cooling capacity of the ice is in phase change from solid to liquid. The salt is moving it to -10 which means bigger gap from outside temperature. So the cold escapes quicker.

If you use normal water it will climb to 0 faster, but stay there longer.

Much colligative

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

There's a ton of variants of this, and saying (in a form or another) apparently goes back to 1700s.

Portable units are serviceable. Not nearly as good as split airco units but you can make them better by adding a second hose.

The air inlet for cooling the compressor needs to draw air in from outside instead of from the room the unit is in.

Its called a heat pump or mini split. Really well made system for air conditioning.

Becoming more common in the states. Rest of the developed world already uses them.

Central air conditioning, but designed better. It services individual rooms instead of taking the temperature of the entire house from one location and then distributing based on that.

It's not just for cooling. It is very efficient at heating and warms up the whole room very quickly.

In the winter we would wake up to a pre-warmed room. Didn't bother turning on the whole house central heating. The wife and I would get dressed in this room (and attached bathroom) and then quickly grab a hot drink and toast from the kitchen and leave the house, and then you save on heating the whole house in the morning. We would also turn off central heating really early in the evening. The house retains heat till we were ready to just chill in the bedroom, and then if it felt too chilly we could turn on the AC heating for a little while. My wife was using an electric fan heater every night despite central heating anyway and needed a blast of extra heating in the bedroom when she always felt particularly cold. Between getting this AC, buying my wife an electric blanket and changing to an electricity tariff that gives quarter price overnight (it costs almost nothing to run this overnight on hot nights).... A friend in a similar sized house has been amazed that our energy bills are one third of his (although we are particularly frugal with energy (15 min of water heating is all we need in 24 hours) and they are particularly bad with energy (overheating central heating and then opening their windows in winter!)).