I have noticed that all parties in The Great Air Conditioner Debate Of 2022 agree that the two-hose design is at least somewhat more efficient than the one-hose design, and that the zero-hose design utterly fails to cool any room at all. (2-hose) > (1-hose) > (0-hose).
Personally, I put far more faith in the tendency of trends to continue than in all this abstract theorizing. I therefore propose that one of [AC]RC’s first projects should be to build a gigahose air conditioner and test its performance.
Other than being a really cool project, this will provide us with important data on the reliability of scaling laws, which will hopefully generalize to other domains.
I urge against abandoning the 0-hose case too quickly! Consider direct radiative cooling of people, which appears to be correctly aligned to the human value of thermal comfort, and highly efficient, while still running afoul of the heuristic that if fails to cool any room at all.
This suggests the multi-hose paradigm is already Goodharted, and designs isomorphic to the 0-hose case are a more fruitful path of investigation.
I have noticed that all parties in The Great Air Conditioner Debate Of 2022 agree that the two-hose design is at least somewhat more efficient than the one-hose design, and that the zero-hose design utterly fails to cool any room at all. (2-hose) > (1-hose) > (0-hose).
Personally, I put far more faith in the tendency of trends to continue than in all this abstract theorizing. I therefore propose that one of [AC]RC’s first projects should be to build a gigahose air conditioner and test its performance.
Other than being a really cool project, this will provide us with important data on the reliability of scaling laws, which will hopefully generalize to other domains.
I urge against abandoning the 0-hose case too quickly! Consider direct radiative cooling of people, which appears to be correctly aligned to the human value of thermal comfort, and highly efficient, while still running afoul of the heuristic that if fails to cool any room at all.
This suggests the multi-hose paradigm is already Goodharted, and designs isomorphic to the 0-hose case are a more fruitful path of investigation.