Home Office Projects Series: Air conditioner setup
Having individual heating and cooling units (per unit gas heaters!) is stupendously inefficient.I travel in Asia fairly regularly so this isn't new to me, but even after all of these years I can't believe I continue to see shiny, brand new "high end" condo buildings in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul, etc., with individual AC units hanging out the window.Contrast this with a condo in Minneapolis that I own wherein heat and AC are central in the building and individual units can set their temperature to whatever they like - all run with tremendously higher efficiency.It was explained to me once that there are Asian (specifically, Chinese) attitudes towards thrift that make it inconceivable/impossible to pay for AC that someone else might be using (or misusing).  I don't know how true that is.What I do know is, my building in MPLS looks very nice without several hundred crappy boxes hanging out the windows.