The authors of the WSJ piece define âslipstreamâ fiction as being âthe new weirdâ because it âborrowsâ from science fiction, fantasy or horror, to âsurpriseâ readers who arenât expecting such things in their allegedly normal fiction.
Multiply the kilowatt-hours used per day times the electricity rate charged by the power company. If you use 10 kilowatt-hours daily and the highest-tier rate you pay is 20 cents, the air conditioner costs $2.00 per day, or about $60 per month.
Central Air Conditioning. The average cost to add a central, or whole-house, air conditioning system to a home ranged from about $2,200 to $2,800 in 2012, according to Homewyse data.Central air conditioners move cool air throughout a house through a duct system.n average, Homewyse pricing shows that room air conditioners ranged from $300 to $400 in 2012. At those prices, you could put a unit in several rooms of a house and still spend less than you would on other air conditioning systems.