eli5: how do dehumidifiers make water from air?
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A dehumidifier is actually just an air conditioner, but the waste heat doesn’t go outside.
When air gets cold, it can’t hold as much water. This is why air conditioners usually drip water, it’s water from the air on the cold side condensing. A dehumidifier does the same thing, but without changing the overall temperature of the room. It just takes yhe heat of the air in one spot, letting the water condense and puts that water in a tank or drip pan, and heats the air up in another spot (for conservation of energy) and then repeating the process after a fan has exchanged the dry air for new, wet air.
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