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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: NTHockey

I can remember 90’s at midnight in the barracks during Air Force Officers Training School at Lackland AFB in San Antonio. May through August 1963. WW2 barracks with no AC. Slept (or tried to) on wet towels on floor. “Built character” (somehow it didn’t help mine).


81 posted on 08/20/2019 3:38:23 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: lastchance

“Ha! There is no such place! Is there?”

Sure! Montreal and Nantucket.

We’ve had a fairly cool summer. My AC didn’t run all that much in July. I had my big floor fan on medium. It was glorious (c;


82 posted on 08/20/2019 3:38:54 PM PDT by Darnright (We live in interesting times.)
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To: ransomnote

Glad these are just “recommendations.” Once the totalitarian left take over, these will probably become hard requirements backed up by force of law and automatically enforced by the new “smart” meters.


83 posted on 08/20/2019 3:39:09 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: shotgun

Ceiling fans don’t help me sleep. At low speed it is ineffective. At high speed, I wake up shivering in the middle of the night. No happy medium.

It is great to take the edge off when I go to bet excessively hot or if the AC is still working its way down to 70, but to leave it on all night in lieu of a comfy 70... No. It is either weak or freezing. No in between.


84 posted on 08/20/2019 3:40:07 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
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To: NEMDF

Been there, done that — hot house for 3 days when the AC fan died and wouldn’t move. I solved that problem by taking long cold showers to pull the heat out of me. Worked rally well, for a few hours anyway. I bet a pool or a cold bath would be even better.


85 posted on 08/20/2019 3:42:15 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
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To: ctdonath2

“I set it to ... 80 at night, my wife threatens to kill me “

I feel her pain. Not kidding.


86 posted on 08/20/2019 3:43:17 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." A. Lincoln)
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To: ransomnote

Nope. I need to actually SLEEP so I can go to
work the next day. Those are not sleeping temps in Michigan in the summer.


87 posted on 08/20/2019 3:43:47 PM PDT by madison10
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To: ransomnote

78 during the day, 73 at night. Isn’t going any higher than that. Where do these retards get these ideas from?


88 posted on 08/20/2019 3:44:23 PM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: ransomnote

I live in SW Florida. The temperature outside is between 90 and 93 from May until October during the day. Low 80’s is normal for night. I set mine at 75 or 76 degrees and run the ceiling fan in the bedroom at night. It seems cool after getting used to the outdoors.

When I step outside, my glasses fog up and sometimes, my watch fogs up. I think the dry air inside makes it feel much cooler than it is.


89 posted on 08/20/2019 3:51:20 PM PDT by FXRP (Cogito, ergo Spam!)
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To: All

They forget an important part of the equation...

Thermal mass: every object, carpet, sofa, bed, towels...every single machine and object in your house will also get warm as your house simmers in the 90DegF heat.

By 5pm when you get home, everything is 85DegF.

The A/C will run much longer taking the heat out than if you left the dial on 78DegF.

Our home has a lower level, surrounded on three sides by earth.
It’s usually 8-10DegF cooler down here.


90 posted on 08/20/2019 3:53:39 PM PDT by GRRRRR (Make America Greater Than Ever Before!)
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To: Pontiac

I’ve done something similar in a previous home. And, I’m no longer 29.

My grandparents had sleeping porches on the back of their house. My uncles slept out there year round. They sometimes woke up covered in snow!


91 posted on 08/20/2019 3:54:20 PM PDT by Darnright (We live in interesting times.)
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To: gcparent

Up in the mountains.. AC has been on a couple times but otherwise it’s quite nice and not humid !


92 posted on 08/20/2019 3:54:30 PM PDT by maddog55
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To: lgjhn23
"...In the meantime, they can go piss up a rope."

Preach it, FRiend!

93 posted on 08/20/2019 3:57:39 PM PDT by Gargantua (Never leave home without it... ;^)
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To: FXRP
I set mine at 75 or 76 degrees and run the ceiling fan in the bedroom at night.

I was born a yank but grew up in Florida. Didn't have A/C in college and slept in a dormer window that was always open. No A/C in the car either. It was miserable.

Kept moving farther North after school and ended up back in New England. It's still too hot. A/C is set at 68. In the Winter the heat is a balmy 58. Must be Neanderthal DNA. I can sit out on the deck on a chaise lounge staring at the stars for hours, and the lady -wrapped up and looking the the Michelin tire guy - can stand only about minutes of it.

Might need to ditch her and move to Alaska - or Terra del Fuego. Greenland if President Trump succeeds.

94 posted on 08/20/2019 3:59:54 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (“They are openly planning to murder you. Prep if you want to live.”)
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To: Inyo-Mono
I loved the weather when I lived in NorCal. I was at the top of a bowl facing due west. The East Bay hills were about four miles to the west, there was a golf course "lake" to the south at the bottom of the bowl, and a mountain to the north.

I kept a window open all the time to let the west-to-east breeze flow through the entire house. I only had to run the A/C during still days.

Now, in the Houston metro area, we're just coming out of a week-long 100+ heat wave. I can't live with the A/C above 70, just to filter out the humidity that seeps inside. If I were to set the A/C to 78, it would take a day just to cool the house down again.

Turning it up and down and up and down would be less efficient than just letting it keep a steady pace of coolness.

-PJ

95 posted on 08/20/2019 4:04:18 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: ransomnote

My response. Oh shut up and MYOB!


96 posted on 08/20/2019 4:07:15 PM PDT by dforest (Just shut up Obama. Maybe everyone should just shut up, even you baggybutt!)
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To: ransomnote

Air conditioning? Open the windows at night!


97 posted on 08/20/2019 4:07:23 PM PDT by Rio
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To: ransomnote

Sounds like the EPA and Department of Energy are still chock-full-of-nuts.

I’ll bet few of them sleep bathed in sweat at 82 degrees.


98 posted on 08/20/2019 4:12:26 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: FXRP

I live in the Tampa Bay area. We recently bought a dehumidifier which seems to help. Yes, it puts out a bit of heat on the right side, but we’ve been amazed that we get 6-8 gallons of water every day out of it. Our thermostat for the A/C is upstairs and we put the DH downstairs. We can keep our temp setting at 79-80 during the day, and at 78 at night. Don’t know if we’re saving a ton of money, but so far this year our bills have been a bit lower. Plus it’s a lot more comfortable inside with the drier air; 80 deg with 45% humidity feels like the old 76 deg. Our A/C doesn’t run 24/7 any more ... more like 18/7. We set the DH to 45% humidity.


99 posted on 08/20/2019 4:13:36 PM PDT by RightField
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To: Sacajaweau

You do it. Mine stays on 68. I pay the bill, not you.


100 posted on 08/20/2019 4:22:33 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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