Bared section of a live wire making contact with a grounded surface.
No electricity
More than likely it is short on charge. Best to turn it off until the problem whatever it turns out to be is corrected. Short cycling is not good for the compressor.
It depends on the company. However, any air conditioning company will charge double if you let them look at your air conditioning at short notice.
One cause of a cars air conditioning to brake is the temperature of the air conditioner. Using to much cold air at a certain amount of time can damage your air conditioner.
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CFC is used in air conditioning systems. It causes ozone depletion.
Geothermal air conditioning is a central cooling system that delivers cool air by pumping heat towards the ground. The difference between it, and an Air Conditioner, is that while an Air Conditioner uses a refrigeration cycle to de-humidify a room, a geothermal air conditioner takes advantage of the ground itself as a heat sink to pump the heat away from a home and into the ground.
In short answer, yes. There are many things that will affect the temperature produced by an air conditioning unit, to be honest.
Dirty condenser coils or condenser air restriction
Because the air conditioning compressor, is run from a pulley off of the engine. This puts an additional load on the engine, which causes more fuel to be used.
A dirty condenser
Could be a dirty cabin filter.