and the compressor needs energy to do the work of compressing the refrigerant. Which may explain your power bills in July. After the refrigerant condenses, the air conditioner backs off the ...

So how does a typical air conditioning unit work and keep you sane during the heat of summer? The basic concept is that a chemical called a refrigerant loops from inside the home to outside and ...

The question is, in such intense heat, how do air conditioners actually work to cool the air we experience inside our homes? The answer isn't too complicated, so let's dig in. We're all familiar ...

As Gavin Harper, a research fellow at the University of Birmingham who works with renewable energy, put it: “Any electrical load can be run from solar power, and in the case of air conditioning ...

Whether it’s an old window unit like the Naykars’ or the most efficient mini-split on the market, many air conditioners generally work the same way: Full diagram of an AC unit, showing the ...

Over the next couple of weeks I’ll discuss the basics. Your air conditioning works because the refrigerant running through the system changes state between liquid and gas and then back to liquid ...