Quantifying Air Conditioner Leaks

Written by Pat's Papers | Thursday, 14 April 2011 8:23 AM

You see this everywhere—air conditioners that don’t fit perfectly into the windows that hold them. Well, someone was significantly irked enough by this phenomenon to quantify the inefficiency caused by the air that leaks through next to badly-installed window units. The New York Times says those air gaps cost New Yorkers at least $130 million a year. Some of that is in additional cooling costs and some of it is heating costs for air conditioners left in place during the winter. The report also found that the air leaks were responsible for an extra 375,000 to 525,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

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