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by lloeki 6 hours ago
> If things would have worked as you say

They work _exactly_ as I say:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump_and_refrigeration_cy...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics

> Just open the windows and blow the cold air out and keep the inverter inside

This "just" seems to hint that you don't seem to quite be grasping the concepts and scale at hand:

- Assuming perfect efficiency and unlimited free energy, where would you even put the heat from outside?

- Since energy is neither free nor unlimited, the energy needs would be enormous+

- Since it is not perfectly efficient and the energy needs are so high, the amount of wasted energy (which is heat) would be colossal, and only make the problem worse

+ The heat causing global warming comes not from human activity but from the sun, the anthropogenic effect at play is that this energy from the sun is captured by greenhouse effect.