2015

The Shady Side Of Air Conditioning: How Shade Can Boost Your AC Efficiency

To cool a home, you need to take advantage of active and passive cooling strategies. Active strategies require electricity to operate correctly. Running your AC unit falls into this category. Passive strategies, as you might have guessed, do not require electricity. Proper shading falls in this category. By using shade strategically around your home, you can improve the performance of your AC unit and save money on your cooling bills. …

After spending a summer volunteering in one of the hottest places on the planet, I gained an appreciation of air conditioners. Furthermore, I wanted to find out everything I could about them so that hopefully, I could one day help to develop an inexpensive cooling system that could be used in underdeveloped areas of the world. Once I began to study the ins and outs of air conditioners, I learned that there is far more to them than just flipping a switch on the thermostat and waiting for the cool air to blow. By studying cooling systems and how they function, I discovered helpful tips that could help homeowners get the most from their units that I plan to share on this blog.

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