Nicky could have more simply stated:

A dehumidifier is a net heat producing device. Bob Vila's web site
says, "Stay a bit cooler with a dehumidifier." To dateless nerds
such as me at Villanova, this seems like an extremely important
semantical issue to discuss.

For Christ sake, Nicky - we all know that an operating dehumidifier adds heat
to a enclosed space and that it doesn't literally cool the room or its
occupants. And we don't need a page full of moronic math & stats to drive the
point home. I really doubt that anybody on this newsgroup is impressed
with your ability to G&P (Google & Parrot) an endless stream of marginally
relevant math, formulas and stats repeated to 10 or 12 significent digits.

Most guys on campus your age are wasting the afternoon out on the quad
on a blanket with a sweet young coed. You should be screwing at least
one new girl per month or you're wasting your college years. Give it a try.

Gideon

PS: If you are in the divinity program at Villanova, then substitute
"choir boy" for either "coed" or "girl" where the paragraph above
mentions how often you should be getting laid.

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Anyone else notice the ad for dehumidifiers on Bob Vila's web site,
which says "Stay a bit cooler with a dehumidifier"?

If it's 75 F and 80% RH indoors and outdoors, 11.8% of people would find
that "too warm," according to the ASHRAE 55-2004 comfort standard.

Dehumidifiers add about 1600 Btu/pint. An average house with 400 Btu/h-F
of conductance and 200 cfm of air leakage would be 79 F with 65% RH with
a dehum removing 1 lb/h of water, and 27.3% would find that "too warm."

OTOH, an AC using the same electricity and removing 1500 Btu/h of heat
and 1.5 lb/h of water would leave the house 71.3 F and 82% RH indoors,
and only 5.1% would find that "too warm." (We can't please everyone--
about 5% of the population will always be dissatisfied.)

Clicking on "How to contact Bob Vila" brings a message saying you can't :-)

Nick