Airconditioners - good or bad ?

[SASA39]

Do you thin that air -conditioners are good ( for making house temperature and humidity lower especially in hot days ) or bad ( because they can be a source of a nasty fungal infections and provoke  blood regulation imbalance in our bodies) ?
If you have any additional reasons for good/bad please add.........
That would be all from me for today I hope......................
                                                      Al

[Cliff]

Good.  Try living in Texas without one.  Fungus be damned.

[Dachshund]

Good.  Try living in Texas without one.  Fungus be damned.

Tee Hee Hee...Memphis in August without air...you are dead in 24.

[Maestro]

Tee Hee Hee...Memphis in August without air...you are dead in 24.

Oh, I agree.  Tampa in July is no picnic.  And when I was with my uncle in the ICU in Austria they had no AC...not pleasant...especially wearing the plastic smock they made you wear...

However, if you think about, humans have certainly been on earth longer without AC than with AC.

[SASA39]

In Belgrade In August temperature could rise to a 106 F with a nearly 95% humidity . And by night it is due to a lot of cement about 82 F .
And if you set your airconditioner to a let`s say 93 F it still makes a difference of a 13 F and it is not good for your blood vessels.
( not to mention those damn fungal things )

[puertorico2006]

In puerto rico its WAY to hot for me to sleep without airconditioner ....even at this time of the year (except once in a while when its rained all day)....

but i only sleep with the air conditioner its off the rest of the day....electricity is way expensive here....

but i rather deal with germs/fungus than not be able to sleep because im too hot hehe

[curmudgeonly]

Having an air-conditioner in some climates is almost a prerequisite for survival, at least for modern humans in the wealthier countries.   Many air-conditioners still spew ozone-depleting gases and they all suck up electricity like mad so on an ecological level they may not be so desirable.  Even though that's the case I could not survive in summer without air-conditioning.  I tried to many years ago as an earnest 20 something and decided I'd expend even more electricity and gas washing my sheets every day since one set was good only for one sweaty night. 

I live in an area of high humidity and mold, mildew, and fungi are a fact of life.  Even with air-conditioning spores are all over the place.  If the air-conditioning is set too high moisture seeps in and anything absorbent is fair game for a mystery growth.  My central ac fan probably spreads spores galore as it blows cooler air around the house.

[Bucko]

When I lived in Boston I never had AC, and except for perhaps ten nights per year, it was livable. On those ten nights I coped with fans which just blew the hot, humid. polluted air around my apartment.

In Ft Lauderdale we are sub-tropical and it is always warm when it's not roasting and sweltering when not merely uncomfortably humid. Certain allowances are made (minimum of clothing, for starters) but from April through November it would be unthinkable without AC.

Brent
(Who's been known to bitch about the weather)

[aztecan]

Well, here in the great Southwestern U.S., our humidity historically ranges between 8 percent and 15 percent, so it isn't too moist and evaporative coolers work just great. I live in a desert and love it.

During the evenings, we usually just open the windows and doors and let a fan move the air around because the temp will drop 30 degrees after the sun sets. It really is quite nice.

There are a few weeks when it is uncomfortably hot, (more than 100 degrees F) and during the monsoon season, the humidity level rises and makes evaporative coolers less effective. During those periods, I do have an air conditioner window unit I use in the bedroom to make sure I can sleep.

But, for the most part, I don't like refrigerated air. I almost always become ill when I spend much time in it.

HUGS,

Mark

[aupointillimite]

Whilst Virginia is known for having four very distinct seasons... summertime is a bitch.

Especially when you live in the middle of an urban heat island.

Liz, Benj, and Megatron (this was before Rimbaud was around) spent the summer of 2005 with no air conditioning in Richmond.

Picture one homosexual in underwear strewn languidly over a sofa and sweating profusely into the upholstery, one chica with large boobs also in underwear strewn languidly over a loveseat and sweating profusely into the upholstery, and one black Manx cat lying on his back with his legs spread out making a pitiful noise that probably translated to "Lord, please... take me now" and that's what May to September was like.

We now have A/C window units.

The ozone layer doesn't cool my house.   

[Bucko]

How big were those boobs again?

 
Brent
(Who appreciates a healthy rack)

[aupointillimite]

How big were those boobs again?

 
Brent
(Who appreciates a healthy rack)

Liz has a D to a double D and towers at five feet tall exactly.

So they look extra big by comparison.

[J.R.E.]

Do you thin that air -conditioners are good ( for making house temperature and humidity lower especially in hot days ) or bad ( because they can be a source of a nasty fungal infections and provoke  blood regulation imbalance in our bodies) ?
If you have any additional reasons for good/bad please add.........
That would be all from me for today I hope......................
                                                      Al

 Couldn't survive without Air conditioning. We've already got ours going, and it's only March. It's just like any other appliance.

You need to keep it clean, and keep the filters changed. That way you wont have the problems of mold or fungus growing within the unit.

I change the filter every 2 months, and clean with bleach/ water solution, about 3 times a year. There are pellets you can purchase to put in the drip pan, to prevent slime and odor.


Ray

[RapidRod]

You can't live in a manufactured home here without AC. I went one day last July without it and it got up to 103 inside. So, yes AC makes a difference.

[Jody]

New York is also quite humid in the summer of course (every place east of the Mississippi river is) and it is tough to live without it...I'm not wasteful and can even do without it during the day and will shut it off for brief periods when I am home...But to sleep without it is impossible, though yes people survived without it for all time until the last half of the 20th century so we are a bit spoiled.

I worry about the pigeon poop that gets into them, I also clean my filters periodically.

Jody

[Christine]

Air Conditioner- YES.  We have a wall unit, and I run the vacuum over the inside to get the dust, and then I wash the filter every know and then.  We don't run it all the time, only when it gets really hot and humid. We have ceiling fans which help also.

Christine

[aupointillimite]

But to sleep without it is impossible, though yes people survived without it for all time until the last half of the 20th century so we are a bit spoiled.

If air conditioners were more popular in Europe (I used to live in Germany and know that they're generally not needed... I pine for pleasant North Atlantic summers from time to time), perhaps 35,000 people wouldn't have died during the heat wave of 2003.

They do save a lot of lives... my parents were actually worried that not having a/c would place some sort of undue stress on my immune system a couple years ago.

[bear60]

AIR CONDITIONERS ARE GOOD.  If you dont clean them it could be a problem...but home airconditioners are fine.  Its those big industrial size air coolers that use water ....where there is a problem with bacteria...like the famous Legionairres Disease...which happend to affect a large number of people in a hotel for an American Legion convention.  It was an OLD building with an OLD cooling system that used water.

[jntmax39]

Try living in Florida in the summer.Oh,HELL NO...lol...