Here in north Idaho, we have ceiling fan/light combos in every room. Most of the time, that’s all we need for cooling and air circulation. These mo fos won’t stop until we’re all living in mud huts. But mostly, they want us dead.
Is there no one who will stop these bastards?
Guess I need to look into hiring a punkah coolie. Or maybe hiring out as one.
Joe... JOE...JOE!!!! EV’s use electricity which comes from fossil fuels, better outlaw EV’s.......
All I’m reading is a way to force people to buy all new, big ticket items required for a home so they make money off the corporations on which they sit on the boards.
Without legislation to stop gross over-reaches by the Executive Branch, over-regulation will never stop. Republican presidents will pause it, but never roll it back, and it will be resumed every time a Democrat gets into the White House. Manufacturers know it, and will go along with stated Democrat goals, knowing that they will get their way in the long term.
All these items were made more efficient years ago. I have an HE washer at my apt project...it s****.
Why elect a Republican Congress? They fund the DOE. They write the laws for DOE to follow. And they wait for the states to file suit.
This whole part of the Dep Of Energy must by law be reduced to nothing more legally demanding as a consumer reports set of recommendations, as in “Good”, “Better” and “Best” ratings that by law can be imposed on no one individual or company. Let the consumer decide.
Control, plain and simple.
Amazon has a 40” ceiling fan with 23 watt built in LED light. Total energy usage is 47 watts.
A 16” oscillating fan uses 60 watts.
These things aren’t our energy hogs or our polluters.
I have 7 ceiling fans scattered throughout the house. Thankfully I replaced all of them the past two years. But the time I have to replace again (18 years from now). All the transition and quirks will be done. It’s always a bad idea to buy a new “improved” item. Wait a few years if you can.
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Brushless DC motors are highly efficient compared to a standard induction motor. They also last much longer. However, the cost of the fan will be about double.
If one wanted real efficiency the fan blade itself should be like an airfoil of an airplane and have a brushless DC motor. A flat blade causes much more turbulence across the blade that represents wasted energy. The noise you hear when running a fan at high speed is all turbulence.
If offered I would buy such a fan despite the higher cost. I sure as hell do not want the government telling me I MUST BY IT!
Rules are laws and laws belong to legislators. This has to stop!
The ruling class just want us Plebes to eat bugs and algae, tolerate heat and cold the old fashion way by putting on or taking off layers of cloths, and live in “15-minute city refers to a place where all the necessities of daily life - shops, schools, workplaces, doctor’s offices, parks, libraries, restaurants and other amenities - are located in a short 15-minute walk or bike ride from home. They of course have 20’000 sq ft mansions heated by gas and cooled by AC, ride around in their gas guzzling limos and fly around in their “wife owned” private jets to the latest climate change symposium.
These aren't the only reasons: how about because people want to improve distribution of air conditioned air in specific locations. And how about better circulation to avoid turning the a/c to a lower temperature?