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Electric fans' effectiveness during heat waves questioned in new report (MSM Goes After Fans Alert)
CBS News ^ | 06/12/2012 | CBS News

Posted on 07/12/2012 8:40:00 PM PDT by goldstategop

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To: mylife

Manual fans aren’t permitted either. A human expends energy waving them. To produce the energy, he has to breathe and that produces CO2. Even worse, he has to eat to get the energy to wave the fan. If he eats meat, it’s probably beef and cows produce methane.


41 posted on 07/12/2012 9:23:21 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: ModelBreaker

Oh my brain hurts from all the academia! LOL!


42 posted on 07/12/2012 9:25:29 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: ModelBreaker

Let’s face it.
The dems are great at circular logic.
To bad we cant harness all the circular energy for some good.


43 posted on 07/12/2012 9:28:21 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: goldstategop
My shack in the Sonoran desert sits in full sun and has no AC. It does have 12" thick concrete walls and a whole house fan which operates at night.

This is my first year there and I am very surprised that it is still quite comfortable and very livable this late in the season. Weeks of temps in the 100s, no AC.


44 posted on 07/12/2012 9:29:44 PM PDT by I see my hands (It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
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To: All
Yall ever notice that on those hot muggy nights these fans don't work?


45 posted on 07/12/2012 9:31:59 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Oldexpat
.....we had an attic fan that was 36” in diameter that sucked air our of the house.....

My grandfather had a big 4 ft. attic fan in the center of his house.
It had 4 blades, belt driven by a big electric motor.
When he put it on high speed during the hottest part of the day, the curtains on all the windows were blowing inwards like there was a 10-15 mph breeze blowing outside.
It kept the house comfortable even in south Louisiana.

46 posted on 07/12/2012 9:31:59 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: goldstategop

I was sitting at a bar on cape cod 2 weeks ago and it was HOT!.
The bartender whipped out a Vornado and man was i impressed!!

I have never seen one before, gotta get me one i think.


47 posted on 07/12/2012 9:48:37 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: mylife

That is so true! I had a friend who lived in an old farmhouse with no a/c. Shade trees on the west side. High ceilings with double hung windows. You were warm, but not overwhelmingly miserable. Now right now I am suffering in my ranch style box. Swamp coolers are no good over 105 and 30% humidity. This weekend I’m going to get an a/c, Mr Gracie1 be damned!


48 posted on 07/12/2012 10:19:21 PM PDT by gracie1 (Look, just because you have to tolerate something doesnÂ’t mean you have to approve of it.)
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To: goldstategop

It’s hot.

I turn on the fan.

I get cool.

“Study” over. Now shut the hell up and go get a real job, morons.


49 posted on 07/12/2012 10:25:58 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Also Sprach Zerothustra)
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To: gracie1

I hope you get some relief.
I would suggest a decent window for a chosen room.
A safe place.


50 posted on 07/12/2012 10:26:46 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: gracie1

I hope you get some relief.
I would suggest a decent window unit for a chosen room.
A safe place.


51 posted on 07/12/2012 10:27:12 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: goldstategop

My power was off for four days after the big storms we had a couple weeks ago. It was 95°+ each day. I bought two little battery-powered camping fans at Walmart and kept them blowing on me at all times.

I HATE the heat. My Swedish blood starts boiling at about 80°. But as long as those fans were on me, I was comfy. I don’t think I sweat a drop in those four days.

Little did I know how close I was to death. Oh my.


52 posted on 07/12/2012 10:34:02 PM PDT by itzmygun (Oust the tyrant)
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To: mylife
Been around the world 2 1/2 times with the Corps; lived in dirt and log bunkers, shelter half tents, squad tents and Quonset huts. Never had any AC, most times didn't even have a fan. When it's hot and muggy strip down as much as is prudent and drink lots of water and take your salt tablets. When it's hot and dry, drink lots of water and take your salt tablets but keep your damn clothes on. It's called weather and it's changeable. Human beings have been around a hell of a lot longer than technology and survived just fine in every climate on earth.
53 posted on 07/12/2012 11:33:32 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: goldstategop

Michelle O would probably say to go outside and run really, really fast!


54 posted on 07/13/2012 12:12:49 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Help reduce voter fraud in America! If you see something, say something!)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

We all better send in our personal “studies” to these idiots. Amazing how civilization has survived so long without their academic opinion/assessment.


55 posted on 07/13/2012 12:47:49 AM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: donna
Old towels work, too. It is basically a field-expedient 'swamp cooler', and can lower inside temps considerably. The lower the relative humidity, the better the evaporative cooling effect works. If you have hard water, though, expect the towels or sheets to be a write-off at some point from the accumulated minerals in them.

If you have water, a mist (we have some black, flat, soaker hose which sprays a fine mist along its length) on/next to the side of the house can drop temps by 5-10 degrees inside, but if your water has lots of minerals in it, it could leave a mineral stain on your siding.

The idea is to create a microclimate, inside the home or just around it which is more bearable than that outside your immediate area.

56 posted on 07/13/2012 1:17:05 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: goldstategop

The solution is to have the government dole out air conditioners along with the welfare checks.


57 posted on 07/13/2012 1:28:29 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: Smokin' Joe

so if I put a sprinkler on so it sprayed the south side of my house (brick)it would keep my house cooler or am I misunderstanding this?

I just a girl, or doesn’t that work anymore?


58 posted on 07/13/2012 3:01:57 AM PDT by Taffini ( Mr. Pippen and Mr. Waffles do not approve and neither do I)
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To: murron

That’s just like my grand parents house.Huge fan at the end

of the hallway.That sucker would make the curtains stand out.

I still use a seventy y/o fan that swings back forth..

The A/C has to be one of the great inventions of history tho


59 posted on 07/13/2012 4:44:14 AM PDT by Harold Shea (RVN `70 - `71)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

There’s really not much to do on a hot day so why not get a grant, do a study of “FANS”. How absurd!

More government waste?


60 posted on 07/13/2012 5:23:32 AM PDT by DaveA37
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