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In that case, yes. What @bignose mentioned applies to my situation. Here none of the buildings in my college have any insulation on them. The ACs can hardly bring down the temperature by 3-4 deg C of normal room temperature. If its 32 deg C normal, it will struggle to bring it to 28 deg C. Hence people set it at the lowest possible setting (16deg C) and the AC runs forever, consuming 2-3 Kwhr per hour. If insulation is applied to buildings, perhaps rooms will cool better and people might turn of ACs.
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Hypothetical idea for reducing power consumption from air conditioners - power budgeting. Instead of setting AC temperature, we can set per hour power consumption limits by an Air conditioner. This will ensure that an AC won't consume too much power per day. Also will make people smart by closing windows and doors when an AC is operational
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Fair point.
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However, I find that setting the AC temperature one deg C below normal gives sufficient cooling - this is because AC reduces the humidity by 10% when I do that and that can cause a heat index drop by 4 deg C. This cuts power consumption by upto 75%.
But people don't consciously perceive temperature drop due to AC until they go out of the room. Hence even if it is very cool, people don't perceive it as very cool as body can only sense drop in temperature and not absolute temparature. Hence the issue is complicated.
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