If I understand correctly, both air conditioners and dehumidifiers conventionally exhaust waste heat through their exhaust air, though both also produce exhaust water. I'd like to know,
- Are air conditioners or dehumidifiers currently being produced that exhaust heat through their exhaust water?
- If not, are there engineering or physical reasons why this is not feasible?
Use case: I currently live where the weather is regularly both hot and humid, and my current dwelling is configured such that my only feasible options for reducing internal heat and humidity are:
- an energy-inefficient external air conditioner (located outside of, but connected to, my dwelling) that also seems inefficient at humidity reduction;
- an energy-efficient internal dehumidifier that exhausts
- waste heat into the dwelling
- waste water into an open reservoir (which I filter for drinking).
What I'd like would be an internal unit like my dehumidifier, but which would instead:
- use its wastewater for cooling;
- exhaust that warm water into a closed, insulated reservoir;
- {sound alarm, shutoff} when the reservoir filled (as it does now) or overheated.
I would then remove and empty the reservoir outside.