Home and Auto Air Conditioner Options
An air conditioner (often abbreviated to A/C in the United States and Canada, and air-con in Britain and Japan) is an appliance, system or mechanism designed to extract heat from an area using a refrigeration cycle.
In construction, a complete system of heating, ventilation and air conditioning is referred to as HVAC.
Domestic air conditioning is most prevalent and ubiquitous in the first-world nations of East Asia (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc.). In this area, with soaring summer temperatures and a relatively high standard of living, air conditioning is considered a necessity and not a luxury. Japanese-made domestic air conditioners are usually window or split types, the latter being more modern and expensive.
In the United States, home air conditioning is more prevalent in the South and on the East Coast, in some parts of which it has reached the ubiquity it enjoys in East Asia. Central air systems are most common in the United States, and are virtually standard in all new dwellings in the state of Florida.
In Europe, home air conditioning remains a rarity, owing to the more moderate temperate climate and social adaptations (for example, it is traditional to take siesta in Spain, and to take long summer holidays in France). Global warming may necessitate more widespread adoption of air conditioning; its lack in homes, in residential care homes and in medical facilities was identified as a contributing factor to the estimated 35000 deaths left in the wake of the 2003 heat wave. (source: Compliments of Wikipedia)
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