As part of the series called Throwing Shade, The Show brought you a conversation with a reporter based in Albuquerque. She’d written about how residents of that city were deciding to ditch their evaporative coolers in favor of air conditioning, saying their swamp coolers weren’t making their homes cool enough.
That conversation prompted a response from Mark Dix, who wrote to The Show in defense of evaporative cooling.
Dix lives in downtown Phoenix and has been here since 1995. The Show invited Dix to talk about his experience, starting with how he decides whether to use the evaporative cooling or AC systems in his house depending on weather conditions outside.
Full conversation
MARK DIX: Exactly. I think because of the extreme heat in Phoenix, we need to have air conditioning during certain months of the year, when the dew point is high, when it’s more humid, typically July and August…