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A refrigerator and air conditioner both remove heat from a cold reservoir and into a hot reservoir Why then does an air conditioner cool a room while a refrigerator warms a room?
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Both an A/C unit and a fridge pump heat from one area into another. In the A/C unit the heat is pumped out of the room and into a discharge area, normally the outside atmosphere, thus the room is cooled, wheras for a fridge the heat is pumped from inside the fridge out into the room, thus the inside of the fridge is cooled and the room is warmed. The only difference between the working of the two is that the "room" is a different side of the heat pump.
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Why does an air conditioner cools a room while the refrigerator warms a room?
Because the refrigerator moves heat from the inside of the fridge to the outside, dumping it into the room. On top of that, the actual machine that moves the heat also gets warm, and sheds it heat into the room too. The A/C always have to have two sides/units, to allow it to move heat from inside the room to outside the room. Basically, a room with an A/C works pretty much like a room-sized fridge. There are industrial grade fridges which work like A/C units, with a separate heat dumping unit that can be placed outside the room/building. They take a lot more plumbing to install, so you rarely find them in private homes.
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