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most Energy Saving air conditioner unit?
I am looking for the most energy saving efficiency air conditioner unit. I need one for a house and I wonder if I can save some bucks using the most efficiency system in the market. I’ll appreciate if you can tell me brands and models and how much is the price of these units. Thank you
The simplest answer is to call up any distributor and get the price in your area for a top of the line Carrier or Trane. The units with the highest SEER and EER ratings are the most efficient ones.
If you want to get technical, you can go to http://www.ceedirectory.org/ceedirectory/pages/cee/ceeDirectoryInfo.aspx and do a search to find a list of everything available that has been tested and find the highest rated unit.
I assume that you want to save energy and have a comfortable house — not just own a complex piece of equipment. To cool your house efficiently, consider the following:
1) Improve your attic insulation and ensure the attic is well ventilated. If your ceilings are hot, you will waste a lot of energy trying to cool the house.
2) Install ceiling fans. A breeze will allow you to use higher temperature settings and still be comfortable.
3)Use a setback thermostat so that it doesn’t stay on all night.
4)Use zoning (multiple units — one for the upstairs bedrooms and one for the rest of the house perhaps).
However, if you want to really get efficient, you need to look beyond SEER and EER ratings on conventional coolers. If your climate is reasonably dry, an evaporative cooler would be vastly more efficient than any compressor based air-to-air cooler (the standard AC unit).
Go to Google books and search “Evaporative Air-conditioning Applications for Environmentally Friendly Cooling – World Bank Technical Papers” for a free copy of a good paper on this under utilized technology.
Ground water is cool (about 50F), geothermal pumps are very efficient, and can provide you heating and cooling. Ceiling fans are efficient. Adding better attic insulation also pays off.
The bottom line is cost/performance tradeoff. You will likely find you cannot afford the most efficient AC unit because there is always a large price premium for the last bit of performance. The exception is the evaporative cooler. This technology is not only energy efficient, the construction costs are low and there are no refrigerants to pollute the environment. Their only limitation is that they do not perform well in humid climates.
If you can digest all this, you will know more than the salesmen will and probably save yourself a few thousand and be able to educate others.
Have fun and hope this helps.
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