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Set Your Air Conditioning to 78 Degrees During the Day, 82 Degrees at Night, Federal Agencies Recomm
fox40.com ^ | August 20, 2019 | TRIBUNE MEDIA WIRE

Posted on 08/20/2019 2:08:56 PM PDT by ransomnote

Full Title: Set Your Air Conditioning to 78 Degrees During the Day, 82 Degrees at Night, Federal Agencies Recommend

Looking to beat the heat without breaking the bank? Energy Star, the federal program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Energy, has some tips — but you might not like them.

Energy Star recommends that, in order to reduce costs and energy usage, you should set your thermostat as high as comfortably possible through the summer.

Specifically, they say you should set your thermostat to 78 degrees while you’re home.

Spending the day out? Turn that thermostat up 7 degrees to 85.

Then, when you finally hit the hay, the federal program recommends setting your thermostat to 82 degrees.

They add that, if you’re using a ceiling fan, you can even turn up the temperature another 4 degrees without losing any comfort.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: airconditioning; thermostat
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To: ctdonath2

Ha! Sounds just like home.

I am convinced that many of those of the female persuasion do not understand the thermostat.

In the summer she has it so low that she sleeps under blankets.
Exact opposite in the winter.

Crazy


61 posted on 08/20/2019 2:47:16 PM PDT by VMI70
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To: DesertRhino

Well, I remember the Carter Admins energy rules. All federal buildings were miserably hot in the summer and cold in the winter. Thermostats were locked.


62 posted on 08/20/2019 2:47:44 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: NEMDF

“When our AC died right before the 4th of July, the bedroom was 89 for 4 nights in a row.”


I had that in June, when our coil sprung a fatal leak. After that, no f’ing way I’m setting it to even a dry 82 at night. Among the reasons is that if I did that, my body temp would be about 82 the next morning, and dropping, after my wife got done with me. :>)


63 posted on 08/20/2019 2:48:08 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: ransomnote

That’s where I set my cruise control.


64 posted on 08/20/2019 2:52:29 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: CodeToad
Federal agencies that have their set to 72.



That is correct, wise toad. And I live frugally - at 80 and at 64 in the winter - so that I may support my overlords.
65 posted on 08/20/2019 2:56:02 PM PDT by golux
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To: Kozak

I, too, remember Jimmuh’s hogwash about temperature control. I worked for a private company, and they latched onto this bright idea hook, line and sinker. So what if the employees melt, WE’RE saving money!


66 posted on 08/20/2019 3:05:14 PM PDT by taxpayerfatigue (Taxpayer Fatigue)
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To: ducttape45

Yep. Sometimes lower at home if I’m using the oven.


67 posted on 08/20/2019 3:05:20 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Darnright

Ha! There is no such place! Is there?


68 posted on 08/20/2019 3:07:48 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: gcparent

It would never be able to recover to a comfortable temperature if you did what they recommend, at least not in any reasonable amount of time. it would take about six hours or so to get down to 75 degrees and by that point what’s the use?

Like you said, why you even turn it on


69 posted on 08/20/2019 3:08:27 PM PDT by jurroppi1 (The Left doesn't have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: A strike

Constant air movement/circulation helps with the return air to the HVAC system. Plus on extremely warm days I can turn the fan up higher without turning the AC up higher.

I’ve place them in every room in my last 3 houses


70 posted on 08/20/2019 3:09:30 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: ransomnote

I didn’t know Jimmy Carter was still president.

Time to clean out the EPA and DOE.


71 posted on 08/20/2019 3:16:17 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: ransomnote

Now of course all honest people realise that the topic here is temperature control systems.

Here in Texas, I don’t really need a furnace (my hot water heater is enough for the whole house) and therefore nobody else in the country needs one either.

I guess we could put a small one in for people to use as a security blanket, but really temperatures should just be set to thirty five so that pipes don’t freeze. Put on a jacket.


72 posted on 08/20/2019 3:19:46 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: ransomnote

Last time I slept at 82 degrees was as a young Marine Aboard the Princeton. Not pleasant


73 posted on 08/20/2019 3:23:57 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: ransomnote

A finger to the air (and not to test the temp). 72 all day and night (it’s not running t night because it is 72). And last winter we only used heat in 2 rooms at all.


74 posted on 08/20/2019 3:24:43 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: ransomnote
"Set Your Air Conditioning to 78 Degrees During the Day, 82 Degrees at Night, Federal Agencies Recommend"


75 posted on 08/20/2019 3:27:26 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: gcparent

My place has few windows, so without the invention of one Willis Carrier, I’d be in a heap o’ trouble.


76 posted on 08/20/2019 3:28:18 PM PDT by Darnright (We live in interesting times.)
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To: ransomnote

They’ve got it backeards.

Set house thermostat to 78

Set bedroom window ac to “glaciate”


77 posted on 08/20/2019 3:31:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: lastchance
Ha! There is no such place! Is there?

We get down into the low 50s almost every night here in Nor Cal and upper 90s to around a 100 or so during the day. Our humidity levels are very low, 2% to 10% every day. We don't have AC, just a swamp cooler and fans. Keeps the house at 72 during the day.

78 posted on 08/20/2019 3:32:40 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: ransomnote

Sound sleep requires a lowered body temperature, not higher.


79 posted on 08/20/2019 3:35:59 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: ransomnote

I set to 70 at night. I can’t sleep in the heat. And at that, I am on top of the blankets, not under them. As it cools through the night, I may pull the blanket up to my knees and maybe to my hips before morning, but my torso is always exposed with the temps at 70 all night.

I would turn it down to 65 at night if it was cheap and didn’t waste energy.


80 posted on 08/20/2019 3:37:52 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
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