A/C vs. swamp cooler?

Seems water should be at a premium in the desert. I'd think your water bill may take a hit.

It's just a standard window unit (usually 12000 BTU) with a reversing valve installed. Not very common at all since the mini-splits have become available at semi-reasonable price-point.

I think I've seen a total of 2 or 3 in North America outside of the old through-the-wall motel units - which are also thankfully being repolaced by mini-splits in new motel construction.

Most "air source" heat pumps. Ground source or geothermals can pretty much handle it without heat-strips - even up here.

A "cold day" is a cold day, no matter which scale you use when it hits -40

The only real advantage to the celcius scale is it follows the metric - or "decimal" system - 100 degrees between freezing and boiling water. (instead of 180)

a hunk of peat on the grate.

To avoid using the same system as the Eurotrash?

When it's 103 F getting too cold is not a consideration.

Surem but it would be 40% cheaper if it only cooled. You guys get hosed.

Why, when we have more efficient central heating systems using lower cost fuel? They are good in some areas, but not all. My new house will have a heat pump but it is a much more mild climate.

The Fahrenheit scale is a temperature scale invented by a Polock physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686?1736).

t doesn't have a zero in a sensible place? C is easy - 0 is freezing 10=

cist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686=E2=80=931736).

Yes, and?

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I want to die peacefully, in my sleep, like my Uncle Bob. Not screaming= in terror like his passengers...

Just looked up heat pumps, and depending on the design, they can function down to -25C outdoor temperature.

There must be a reason America uses air and Britain uses water. Both seem to have advantages, but what would annoy me are draughts and noise, so I'd always fit water:

Non-frost-free freezers manage just fine. And the inside of a freezer is most certainly not dry.

If it cost that much nobody would have them.

I've never understood that, I thought the fright/pain/shock came from the current, which is the same if you're holding a key. Yet I can't feel it at all with a key. So is it not actually an electric shock but instead the hot spark?

If you walk around your house naked in summer, you need less AC.

Trouble is that needs a lot of digging to install. I hate digging.