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Standard air-conditioning systems simultaneously cool and dehumidify through a relatively inefficient mechanism: in order to condense water out of the air, Shah says, they overcool that air past the point of comfort.

From Scientific American • Aug. 29, 2023

Many new designs therefore separate the dehumidification and cooling processes, which avoids the need to overcool.

From Scientific American • Aug. 29, 2023

But critics have often accused the Met of being overcool to 20th Century U.S. painting.

From Time Magazine Archive