I Bought a Portable Air Conditioner. Should You?
A window air conditioning unit is, in many ways, a terrible technology. It's inefficient. It blasts cool air from only one location, as opposed to the many vents of central air. These heavy hunks of metal hang precariously over sidewalks-something I think about whenever I walk the streets of New York, look up at the many window ACs, and ponder the fact that they were installed by amateurs. But when summer comes and your apartment has no central air, the alternative is suffering (or a bunch of big, dust-collecting fans). Or is it? Many of ...
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