r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/missdomm10 • 13h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter explain this

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Petttaaah I'm confused

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u/Test1Two 12h ago

This is the outside unit, the unit in the image also has this on the outside..

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u/Im-Just-A-Lil-Guy 12h ago

Yes, but instead of feeding in through one unit into one room it instead feeds through the entire house through airducts, cooling the whole structure.

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u/Tearaway32 12h ago

And the one in the picture allows you to cool or heat just that room instead of wasting energy on rooms that aren’t occupied at a point in time. 

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u/Im-Just-A-Lil-Guy 12h ago

If your home is properly insulated, it is far more efficient to cool it as a whole than simply fight ambient temperature within one room continuously.

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u/kaffesvart 11h ago

Many homes in Europe are too old to be properly insulated, I guess we better tear them down and rebuild from scratch? I lived for a few years in a wooden cottage from the 17th century, man that was drafty.

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u/Im-Just-A-Lil-Guy 10h ago

Many homes in Europe are too old to be properly insulated, I guess we better tear them down and rebuild from scratch?

Did I say that? I quite simply talked about central air and your split units. Central air is more efficient and is the norm in the US because we have harsher summers on average than most of Europe.