Air Conditioning

It should be known that in a thermodynamically Closed system, any energy put into the system that will be maintained at a constant temperature (which is a standard mode of operation for modern air conditioners) requires the energy removal rate from the air conditioner to increase . This increase proves that for each unit of energy input into the system (say to power a lightbulb in the closed system) requires the unit to remove the energy. In order to do that the air conditioner must increase its consumption by the opposite of its efficiency times the same input unit of energy. As an example, take that inside the closed system, a 100 Watt light bulb is activated, and the air conditioner has an efficiency of 50%. The air conditioners energy consumption would increase by 200 Watts to compensate for this, thus making the 100W light bulb utilise 300W of energy.

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