If you ran a swamp cooler and a dehumidifier at the same time would it be the same as air conditioning?

[Penis Drager]

Evaporate water to cool air.
Condense water to remove humidity.

 

[King Fructose]

You are exactly the kind of person we need running this country

 

[Iron Jaguar]

 

[Ed Special]

You'd actually make the room hotter - the dehumidifier has to pull all the heat out of the water in the air in order to condense it, and that's the same heat that the swamp cooler pulled from the air into the water in order to achieve its cooling effect. Because neither machine is perfectly efficient, thermal losses would lead to net heating.

 

[L50LasPak]

This is retarded. If you just run a dehumidifier in the room with you anyway it'll cool the air down quite a bit.

 

[Penis Drager]

You'd actually make the room hotter - the dehumidifier has to pull all the heat out of the water in the air in order to condense it, and that's the same heat that the swamp cooler pulled from the air into the water in order to achieve its cooling effect. Because neither machine is perfectly efficient, thermal losses would lead to net heating.

I will set up a series of tubes to evacuate the heat from the dehumidifier out the window.
Checkmate!

This is retarded. If you just run a dehumidifier in the room with you anyway it'll cool the air down quite a bit.

This won't work in a dry climate.

 

[Freshly Baked Socks]

I've done this before. In a well sealed and insulated room you will experience temperature rise. The motor on the dehumidifier generates a bunch of heat.

 

[Ultrapenguin]

But what if you put a strong dehumidifier in another room at the opposite side of the house, and a swamp cooler in the room you're in? So there was like a humidity gradient?

You'd get evaporative cooling in your room, the humidity would flow out and towards the dehumidifier, the dehumidifier would take the water out of the air. The temperature of the rest of the house wouldn't benefit, but your immediate area would I think.

In fact wouldn't that be like a very big stupid version of a regular AC? All it does is take some liquid shit, let it boil/evaporate to remove energy from the air, transport it to another place, then release the energy, then re-condense it and start the process again.

Idk, I think you could make it work.

 

[Chocolate Wombat]

Just get a window unit like a normal human.