Hi Mark, Well, you don't have to look far. Spain (kind of where you are), France, Germany they will start cooling as well to reach that temperature for most of the year. I don’t think it will be feasible considering going green is what Europe wants to achieve.
Jürgen > On Apr 1, 2024, at 10:29 AM, Mark <[email protected]> wrote: > > Room temperature change from 25ºC to 20ºC > > As a member of the inter-society standards commission St-Incent I have been > asked to take the bearings of the structural biology community regarding a > proposal to lower the universally understood room temperature from 25ºC (77º > Fahrenheit) to 20ºC (68º Fahrenheit). Obvious advantages would be less > heating necessary for experiments at this standard temperature. Given that > laboratories nowadays are not commonly heated to this high temperature > anyway, it does appear to make sense. > > Members of tropical and subtropical countries have already expressed > opposition to the proposal, because they have to reach room temperature by > cooling rather than heating, so for them the proposal would mean more CO2 > emissions, not less. > > Please express opinions to this list today, so that I have time to collate > them before the local deadline of 28 December. > > > Mark J van Raaij > Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas, lab 20B > Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC > calle Darwin 3 > E-28049 Madrid, Spain > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
