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re: air conditioning
15 may 1997
jill hollifield (jill@pluto.njcc.com) wrote:

: i am moving into an apartment with central a/c... will my electric bills be
: lower if i run the a/c all the time at a non-arctic temperature (e.g., 75 -
: 78), or if i turn it off during the day and only use it when i'm home?

they will be lower if you turn it off during the day and only use it when you
are home, especially if you set the thermostat to 95, in parallel with an 80%
humidistat, or fill your apartment with thermal mass and open the windows at
night, and spend lots of time in an unheated waterbed with a very thin pad, or
a bean bag chair or belt or collar filled with water or copper bbs, or wear
cool sox (tm), an imaginary product with knee-high synthetic socks kept damp
with a squeeze bottle on your waist, or camel-kool (tm), a thin water-filled
back pack worn under a shirt with no insulation between you and the water,
attached to a small damp radiator built into a pith helmet, with a battery/
photovoltaic fan, or head sink (tm) a close-fitting metalized heat sink hat
holding lots of interesting longish punk pointy fins.

perspiring helps too, as do basement apartments, swimming pools, cold tubs,
drinking more liquids, exterior window shading, wearing less clothing, fans,
moving to maine, and having a higher surface to volume ratio.

nick