Abstract
When refrigeration first competed with evaporative cooling in the Southwest, cost comparisons were disregarded. Electricity was cheap, so regardless of costs, the public bought the new air conditioning, for prestige reasons if nothing more. Today relative costs are becoming dominant. With power rates probably rising 5–10 percent per year for at least several decades ahead, costs are increasingly taking charge.
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Watt, J.R. (1986). The Economics of Evaporative Cooling. In: Evaporative Air Conditioning Handbook. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2259-7_24
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