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.
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
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.
“When our AC died right before the 4th of July, the bedroom was 89 for 4 nights in a row.”
That’s where I set my cruise control.
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!
Yep. Sometimes lower at home if I’m using the oven.
Ha! There is no such place! Is there?
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
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
I didn’t know Jimmy Carter was still president.
Time to clean out the EPA and DOE.
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.
Last time I slept at 82 degrees was as a young Marine Aboard the Princeton. Not pleasant
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.
My place has few windows, so without the invention of one Willis Carrier, I’d be in a heap o’ trouble.
They’ve got it backeards.
Set house thermostat to 78
Set bedroom window ac to “glaciate”
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.
Sound sleep requires a lowered body temperature, not higher.
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.
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