Submitted 1 year ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
Seeing title:
revolutionary
Yeah it’s probably bullshit as I see revolutionary product announcements about twice a day
Reading article:
Yeap, this is something somewhere in some lab that one day maybe a decade from now find its way into a consumer product, but probably not air conditioners anyway…
For the moment it sort of sounds sort of like a Peltier cooler, which also is useless for airconditioning
Is this cheaper to run more expensive to buy type of deal? If so I want one of those
It says the current tech is only 15% efficient vs current AC which is 20-30%, so no it would be more expensive to run. Since it doesn’t exist as a product yet, we can’t really compare initial installation costs, and probably not maintenance costs either. Hopefully they can improve on the efficiency, but there may be a theoretical maximum efficiency and I have no idea if that’s higher than 30% or not
Yeah, you could probably achieve 15% cooling efficiency with regular old nitrogen or methane instead of fluorocarbons.
Extremely interesting. Some technical challenges remain, but so many applications if solved.
Good for Slovenia.
sturger@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You know what’s even cheaper to run than this “new technology”? Breathy promotion pieces that give no evidence whatsoever to support it’s claims. Way to go, PR folks.