Looking forward to feedback from the Southern realms as to which should be
higher; SSRT or WSRT.
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All Things Serve the Beam
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David J. Schuller
modern man in a post-modern world
MacCHESS, Cornell University
[email protected]
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Sent: Monday, April 1, 2024 10:47 AM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Room temperature change from 25ºC to 20ºC
Excellent idea, Mark!
I think the solution to your dilemma is rather straightforward: we introduce a
Winter Standard Room Temperature (WSRT) and a Summer Standard Room Temperature
(SSRT). This way, the folks from locales closer to the equator can always use
SSRT, while those from more temperate climates can take advantage of using both
WSRT and SSRT.
The added benefit of this approach will be inclusion of researchers closer to
either of the poles (which, forgive me for saying it, you so egregiously
omitted from your considerations). Similar to the tropics, they could use just
one standard - WSRT.
Hope it helps your and so many young scientists' careers.
Best wishes,
Nukri
On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 9:29 AM Mark
<[email protected]<mailto:[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
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