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1. Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Jun-2018 00:54:25 EDT Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

   If you're lucky enough to live in a house with air conditioning, you'll know how much electricity the damn thing uses. Let's talk thermodynamics! Put a big fan in the top floor of your house, facing the window. At night, open the window, turn the fan on full blast facing OUT. Now open a window in the lowest room in your house. All the hot air gets sucked out and replaced with cool night air, and you won't need to run the AC tomorrow unless it's a REAL scorcher. The fan uses WAY less juice.

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 06:44:25 EDT Strypey

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      @ifixcoinops I really don't like air conditioning. It makes me feel like I'm hanging out in a fridge, and when I go outside, the transition to the ambient temp is sudden, and overwhelming. If I don't use AC, it's usually a little cooler out than in (in the shade anyway), which is a nice feeling. I'm not an alien, and I don't need life support tech to live on #Earth ;-P

   2. Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Jun-2018 00:57:36 EDT Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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      While on the subject of fans - fans don't cool down a room, they cool down humans. AC motors are very efficient, but they still generate heat. Heat that you then have to get rid of somehow, which will probably cost you more money. Running a fan in a room you're not in costs you money for uselessly running a fan, and MORE money to get rid of the heat it creates. Treat fans like they're lights, and turn them off when you leave the room.