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Central electric cooling.
In an average air conditioned home air conditioning consumes more than 2 000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year causing power plants to emit about 3 500 pounds of carbon dioxide and 31 pounds of sulfur dioxide.
The most common central cooling system is a split system which includes an outdoor cabinet containing a condenser coil and compressor and an indoor evaporator coil usually installed in conjunction with your furnace or air handler.
Gas and electric central air conditioning systems all require the same equipment.
Hotel style heating and cooling units ptac wall furnaces.
Air handlers and all electric furnaces.
Central means the cooler is in one place and a fan circulates the air through the house.
Cooling means air conditioning normally done with a heat pump which is the engineering name for air conditioner.
Electric is powered by electricity.
The compressor pumps a chemical called refrigerant through the system.
Both systems are interdependent on the furnace unit which is fueled by gas and the condenser which is powered by electricity.
So the unit has a heat pump outside that runs to an air handler inside.
Modular blowers or electric furnaces hanging furnaces.
How central cooling works.