Airco or a ceiling ventilator

I’ve lived in some pretty warm countries: Israel, India, Scotland and Thailand, for example.

And I love ceiling ventilators. They always cool me down enough, without upsetting my balance with the temperature outside.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyqldl3p5o

Big discussion in France between the Greens and the Right-wing parties.

Now, my wife is a left-wing peace loving hippie… and she loves airco. Where I happily drive around with the windows and roof open, basking in the Sun, she wants the airco on.
My kid’s a teenage emo and doesn’t want the hair blown about, so he wants airco as well.

It doesn’t seem, to me, to be a left-wing vs right-wing issue.

Airco disturbs you getting used to the temperature outside, it gives me a dry throat and a headache.
So, ventilators are my thing.

What do you all think? Vents or airco? Which is better?

People all around the world die of heat stroke each year, especially when they have no access to air conditioning.

Airco is often thought of as a luxury but should be considered a basic necessity like access to heat is; especially as global temps increase due to climate change.

@shavixmir said
Airco disturbs you getting used to the temperature outside, it gives me a dry throat and a headache.
So, ventilators are my thing.

you poor fools...this is what happens when you have no friends...you wind up babbling on the internet to characters

@shavixmir

So the debate is why would we take you seriously about anything when you just said your son is an emo?

Lmao you got a little Nancy boy hahaahaaa

Edit: that explains a lot actually 🤔

@PuzZuLz said
@shavixmir

So the debate is why would we take you seriously about anything when you just said your son is an emo?

Lmao you got a little Nancy boy hahaahaaa

Edit: that explains a lot actually 🤔

So formulating conflicting hypothesis without assaulting anyone:

Air Conditioning (often abbreviated as AC here as Airco) is the way to go for alleviating high temperatures

Ceiling ventilator is the way to go for alleviating high temperatures.

My choice would be the ventilator. The created airflow is cooling the skin by evaporation cooling, and this also works at high humidity. It is comparatively cheap on energey use.

Air conditioning is creating a high amount of excess heat for a (comparaby) small amount of cool island. Since the gardient is always moving heat to cold places, it has to run continously .

Air conditiong has its uses, but I observe excessive use (rooms at 20°C at outer temperatures beyond 35) that are not healthy. A pet peeve of mine are people who need 25°C in winter , but can't live at 25°C in summer. So in their houses it is always much too warm (in winter!) or much too cold (In summer!) for me.

Our home has both, and also honeycomb window blinds.
Aircon is extremely wasteful of energy, and better used as a last resort for most people.
Ceiling fan is cheaper but cools a smaller volume of air, so it's not always cooling exactly where you want it.
My personal preference is the insulated honeycomb blinds which cover our windows during extreme heat or cold. No cost beyond the original low purchase price, and no servicing required, and no noise.

@Ponderable said
So formulating conflicting hypothesis without assaulting anyone:

Air Conditioning (often abbreviated as AC here as Airco) is the way to go for alleviating high temperatures

Ceiling ventilator is the way to go for alleviating high temperatures.

My choice would be the ventilator. The created airflow is cooling the skin by evaporation cooling, and this also works at ...[text shortened]... er. So in their houses it is always much too warm (in winter!) or much too cold (In summer!) for me.

@Ponderable said
So formulating conflicting hypothesis without assaulting anyone:

Air Conditioning (often abbreviated as AC here as Airco) is the way to go for alleviating high temperatures

Ceiling ventilator is the way to go for alleviating high temperatures.

My choice would be the ventilator. The created airflow is cooling the skin by evaporation cooling, and this also works at ...[text shortened]... er. So in their houses it is always much too warm (in winter!) or much too cold (In summer!) for me.

@Kewpie said
Our home has both, and also honeycomb window blinds.
Aircon is extremely wasteful of energy, and better used as a last resort for most people.
Ceiling fan is cheaper but cools a smaller volume of air, so it's not always cooling exactly where you want it.
My personal preference is the insulated honeycomb blinds which cover our windows during extreme heat or cold. No cost beyond the original low purchase price, and no servicing required, and no noise.

@Suzianne said
Funny you mention 25C, since my thermostat is set to 25C (77F) year 'round.

Since 45C outside is common in summer, this is quite adequate. The only major change is switching from heat to AC (usually near the end of May) and from AC to heat (usually in mid/late November). It can get down to 7-10C outside at night in winter (like January/February). March/April and October sometimes no heat or AC all day. Just fans for air movement.

@Rajk999 said
Most middle class homes around here in the blazing hot tropics [not sure you people know what that feels like], all year round, have A/C in all rooms. Also its not about the heat. Its the humidity which is also very high. A/C fixes both problems. Electricity is cheap and China massproduces cheap replaceable A/C units. A few decades ago we were not that lucky.

Heat and h ...[text shortened]... electronics, so its better to invest in air conditioning, than constantly replace electronic items.

@shavixmir said
I’ve lived in some pretty warm countries: Israel, India, Scotland and Thailand, for example.

And I love ceiling ventilators. They always cool me down enough, without upsetting my balance with the temperature outside.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyqldl3p5o

Big discussion in France between the Greens and the Right-wing parties.

Now, my wife is a left-wing ...[text shortened]... headache.
So, ventilators are my thing.

What do you all think? Vents or airco? Which is better?

@Ponderable said
A pet peeve of mine are people who need 25°C in winter , but can't live at 25°C in summer. So in their houses it is always much too warm (in winter!) or much too cold (In summer!) for me.