The express purpose is to affect the temperature within the state borders (inside a building, which is still in the borders).
The “have to” is the side effect though. The “express purpose” is still to produce cool inside air.
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
… (inside a building, which is still in the borders).
…but may be hard to argue it meets the other clause of “in the atmosphere”. Yes, there is air in the building, but unless the building isn’t well sealed (which it would be generally well sealed to keep the cold in) then the cold isn’t expressly being released into the atmosphere.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
That’s like saying the express purpose of hunting isn’t to kill something, it’s to acquire meat. The express purpose is to move heat from inside to outside. You can’t “produce” cool air, you can only move heat.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
If you’re hunting to eat, the express purpose of hunting is to acquire meat. If you’re hunting for sport, then you may not care about the meat the express purpose would be the desire to the kill or the resulting trophy.
You’re focusing on the mechanism. The definition of “express purpose” is focusing on the result.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Then go to the store. If you’re hunting, assuming it’s not for sport, your express purpose is to kill something to eat. You don’t get meat without the death. Likewise, the express purpose of A/C is to move heat outside. You don’t get the heat out of the inside without releasing it to the outside.
The laws of thermodynamics are not a side effect. Again, you cannot “produce” cold air, it cannot be the purpose because it is not physically possible. The result is transporting heat from inside your house to the outside atmosphere. That is the express purpose of the air conditioner.