Air Conditioning Improves Productivity and Technology

Conventional wisdom tells us not to run our air conditioners more than we have to. The idea is to conserve energy at all costs. However, it’s not always that black and white. For example, in order to make sure air conditioners are running cold in some cars, you need to run the systems for a few minutes every day, even (especially) during the winter. With your business and/or home air conditioning system, there are also not-so-commonly-known benefits from keeping them running. The CATO Institute discusses this in a recent article titled “The Miracle of Air-Conditioning.”

Marian L. Tupy of the CATO Institute writes, “Air-conditioning makes our lives more comfortable, but let us not forget the importance of air conditioning for the economy. As Walter Oi writes in The Welfare Implications of Invention, temperature and humidity have a strong influence on labor productivity. For example, in machine shops, labor productivity is at its peak at 65 degrees Fahrenheit with humidity between 65 and 75 percent. Productivity is 15 percent lower at 75 degrees Fahrenheit and 28 percent lower at 86 degrees Fahrenheit. Moreover, accident rates are 30 percent higher at 77 degrees Fahrenheit than at 67 degrees Fahrenheit. In many factories, temperature and humidity also affect the product, ruining paper, threads of textiles and so on. Similarly, in the old days, main-frame computers required climate control to function effectively. It was undoubtedly the introduction of air-conditioning that caused value-added per employee in manufacturing in the South to increase from 88.9 percent of the national average in 1954 to 96.3 percent of the national average in 1987. Best of all, air-conditioning is much, much cheaper and more available than it has ever been!”

As evidenced by this article, with the air conditioning system running, you are much more likely to be productive and technology like your computer is more likely to work well. Of course, this is dependent on getting a quality air conditioner.

When it comes to air conditioning systems, you can’t go wrong with AC World. For example, consider our Ductless Mini Split Air Conditioners, which are cost effective alternatives to central Air conditioning. Because the compressor sits on the outside, the air conditioner is very quiet and efficient. In addition, these air conditioners avoid the energy losses associated with the ductwork of central forced Air systems. To put that in perspective, duct losses can account for more than 30 percent of energy consumption for space conditioning, especially if the ducts are in unconditioned spaces such as an attic.

Contact us to see if Ductless Mini Split Air Conditioners or one of our many other air conditioning systems are right for you. Whatever air conditioning needs you might have, we’ve got you covered at AC World!