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.
  • chaogomu@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The 8kw of heat may have originally come from outside, but now it’s been put back and concentrated around the AC unit.

    So the area around the AC unit has 10kw of extra heat that it would not have otherwise had.