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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/02/2015 10:25 AM, John F.
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<pre wrap="">On February 11, 2015 3:59:45 PM CST, Warin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com"><61sundowner@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 12/02/2015 3:45 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
Most air conditioners here have the ability to both heat and cool at
least here and in the UK.
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Technically, a unit that can either cool a building, or heat it by cooling outdoor air and transferring heat to indoor air, is a heat pump rather than an air conditioner. </pre>
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And the common use term is 'air conditioner'. <br>
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Some cooling only units are heat pumps - they work in humid
environments where evaporative coolers fail. Places in deserts or
near deserts use the evaporative coolers (Alice Springs,
Australia) while those in tropical areas use heat pumps (Darwin,
Australia)... what suits the circumstance gets used. </big><br>
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