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Dehumidifiers are air conditioners that put the heat back in the air they treat instead of dumping it outside. Your electricity would be better spent operating a real air conditioner.


Or you could use an Einstein-Szilard (aka absorption) refrigerator that works without electricity. It’s driven by heat. It uses 3 gases (butane, ammonia and water.) It has no moving parts so it’s safe.

Someone could make a “Einstein dehumidifier” using 19th century technology and roll it out across the world. If embedded in buildings it could cool them constantly with no electricity required.




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