Air conditioning

[lightiggy]

Requires power

cools you down in warm weather but will freeze you in cold weather...

 

[Rathlord]

Air conditioning isn't really capable of freezing someone. Air conditioners have their effects limited to fairly high degrees (usually about 55 or 60 degrees Farenheit). Even if you were to override this, they must also have the outside cooler than the inside to function. Otherwise, they'll do nothing. So even if you ran it in winter, with the override, it still couldn't cool the house any colder than it is outdoors.

[Kirrus]

A lot of air conditioners actually have a heating circuit, so in winter, they'll heat..

[lightiggy]

Thanks rath but it isn't a bad idea right??? Not all of the houses will have it of course. Only a certain percent. But most stores will have it

[Rathlord]

I'd say the vast majority of houses in the southern US have air con these days. I think there's already something about houses and retaining heat/cold, but I'd have to double check to be sure. On the whole it might be neat to have, though I think heat in the winter is a far more interesting/important mechanic to work on. That alone could make having power much more valuable and important.

[EnigmaGrey]

A lot of air conditioners actually have a heating circuit, so in winter, they'll heat..

Stranger from a strange land, this one. (But yes, that describes our heat pump -- system reverses to provide heat. They're only recently popular in North America.)