As record-breaking heat waves cripple the West, air conditioning units and swamp coolers have malfunctioned or stopped working in at least three Nevada state corrections facilities. “We haven’t had air conditioning for at least 45 days,” Leslie Meier, who is incarcerated at Jean Conservation Camp, located about 20 miles outside Las Vegas, told the Current. […]
While that is true in the sense that the lack of humidity allows for the evaporation to cool the air, a swampy running at peak efficiency cools the ambient air at best ~20°. If it’s 115, that’s still 95°. And that’s only if they are working perfectly, and they never are.
While that is true in the sense that the lack of humidity allows for the evaporation to cool the air, a swampy running at peak efficiency cools the ambient air at best ~20°. If it’s 115, that’s still 95°. And that’s only if they are working perfectly, and they never are.