Posted on 09/03/2017 2:11:56 PM PDT by publius911
Copper Harbor, Michigan, USA
Suppposed to be 98 tomorrow and steadily going down until Thursday when it's supposed to be 90. I hope the damn weather guessers are right.
Yes, a single room A/C unit upstairs works miracles in efficiency with a single room to deal with. Nights are seldom a problem with the benefits of the famous delta breezes. With rare exception.
I work in a warehouse with very little ventilation. A roll-up door at either end but the airflow is blocked by all the racking and inventory. Very little breeze, anyway. The last few days have been 105 to 108 degrees. I soaked my t-shirt in water every couple of hours. That helped quite a bit.
Is there a typo or two here?
ceiling fans or extra fans. cheaper than running a/c more.
Keep a/c as high as I can stand (83ish) during peak cost hours then lower it for sleeping comfort (79-80) when electric cost per kilowatt is much less.
Glad I don’t live in flat rate electric area, for me it takes thought but relatively easy to cook or do laundry and cool house before or after peak cost hours.
I do all of my cooking in the early morning and make things that can be reheated in the microwave. Do all laundry early in the morning. It gets plenty stuffy in the house by 4PM if we have the thermo set at 80. I try and keep it at 77 but overnight, it is 75-76.
We drink a lot of water, too.
Yes, I live in the desert.
The problem is bigger than one individual. We all need to keep the AC on 24/7 to help counteract global warming.
Hot town,summer in the city...back of my neck gettin' dirty and gritty!
There is no energy shortage. CA forces them to buy and distribute more expensive wind, solar. Makes my blood boil.
You heartless swine! Do you thing that algore or DiCaprio *ever* turn their A/C on? Follow their example,damn it!
Bringing back memories...love that song!!
Copper Harbor, Michigan: What is winter like there? It’s on Lake Superior at the northern end of U S Highway 41. Hwy 41 runs from there all the way to Miami, Florida.
The Spoonful...one of the most under-appreciated groups of the 60's...along with Buffalo Springfield.
Close your windows before the heat sets in and turn on a fan. Also a damp washrag around your neck helps a lot.
Hey, you must be a neighbor. Centralia resident here, and I keep my AC at around 68 around the clock. Sometimes I click it up to 72 or so and the boss complains. The power bill is just about a flat number no matter the month. My cat loves it, the dog does too if I take him to the river and throw a stick until he nearly dies.
The effectiveness of added fans can’t be overstated. When I lived in the deep south w/o a/c for two or three years I had ‘fan on a stand’ on rotate in each room combined with a ceiling fan in my largest room. Make a pitcher of iced tea each day and store it in the fridge. Drink served over ice during the day. Take a cold bath at night to cool you off so you can sleep. Put one of the fans on stand aimed at your bed if you can stand that too.
Good luck.
I can second the idea of a swamp cooler, which is very easy to fabricate. You will need:
A door sized piece of thin plywood.
Two cheap screen doors, bolted together with a 1” gap.
Enough excelsior cooler pads to fill the gap.
A trough to catch excess water beneath, which drains somewhere safe, and one with holes to dribble into the pads above.
A small hose rigged to dribble water into the upper trough.
A large, strong square fan.
Bolt the screen doors together with the pads between them. Erect the door on the cooler, darker side of the building in the doorway.
Cut a hole in the bottom of the cheap plywood large enough for the square fan, and have it pointing out the door on the other side.
The fan will create an underpressure in the building, which will draw air through the wet cooling pads, cooling the dry air considerably.
When the temperature drops outside, continue to use the fan to pull cool air into the building in the morning.
The last couple of afternoons, it’s been hotter in San Francisco than in Tempe. Strange times we live in.
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