The Workermonkey

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

30 minutes, 200 dollars and 8000 BTU's later... 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 6/10/2008 07:17:00 PM

i once again am acting like a neanderthal and forcing mother nature to conform to my life instead of the other way around. plus i specifically bought the non energy star rated unit, so take that planet earth. even with a 50$ rebate for turning in an old inefficient unit it was still cheaper to buy a larger less efficient unit. now i just have to dump the old unit on the side of the highway and my day is complete. fuck you heat. technology wins.


on a separate rant, damon, maybe this one's for you, but does all of our air "conditioning", heating cooling and going against the way mother natures wants our living rooms, are we fucking up the earth's temperature? do 200 million AC's cranking away during the summer, pumping out cold air, fuck up the giant slug of warm air dominating our weather? not from a energy usage standpoint or global warming or CO2 emissions, but from the fact that we are trying to force summer to be cooler and winter to be hotter. this one bugs me.

3 comments

You're a god damn hypocrite. Spend the extra money and get the energy efficient appliances. You should be leading by example and you can afford it. They save you money long term anyway jacksass. You're an idiot.

By  Brancibeer, at Wednesday, June 11, 2008 2:21:00 PM  

you sir, are correct. sort of. i don't plan on using this thing long term. i'd be surprised if i used it past this summer. i hope to move out into my own place, that i own, at some point soon. i have been saying that for a while but its getting closer. i swear. so the long term effects for me are minimal. i had a basic principle going into this purchase. the most BTU's for the buck. period. and quickly. time was of the essence because of the current weather in CT. so i did minimal searching online, found a decent model, went, picked it up and had it in the window in about 40 minutes. it was amazing. plus i only really use the AC 5 nights a week or less so its not a full time run. i believe i made the correct decision here, i certainly understand your point and did take it into consideration when making my purchase but went in a different direction.

i argument i'm expecting that i don't really have any defense for other then the timeing need, is why didn't i just buy a cheap one on craigslist or in the paper, etc. i don't know what to say to this one. oops?

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:47:00 PM  

AC shouldn't be necessary in New England, but because of the stupid designs of the past 100 years we invite excess heat into our homes, confident we have excess fossil fuels to push it out.

Is this unit oversized? You should know that oversizing it would lead to running too short on the cooling cycle to circulate the oil, leading to short life. I guess you don't care about this though., and maybe it's sized right anyway.

Full disclosure: AC is my guilty pleasure. Though I can't control it at work, my office is cold. I can control it at home and my apartment is cool. But at home our East facing windows only get about 30 minutes of sun a day, and our 2nd of 8 floors location gets little other heat gain. Our AC is a water source heat pump so it uses hardly any energy to push our 75F air's heat into the 55F water. My final justification is that outside the windows of my cheap apartment is an alley with trash and recycling from several restaurants and bars that attracts flies and is loud as they dump bottles in, and the compressor for my 91 unit building that cycles loudly a few time an hour.

Coming soon: buying a house for gradual renovation to passive heating/cooling.

By  Damon, at Wednesday, June 11, 2008 8:00:00 PM  

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