Alan, I'm not sure how running my air-conditioner for a few hours through the night can contribute to the heat wave. It could conceivably contribute to the brown-outs or power losses, but the trivial amount of power that my 28000 BTU AC consumes over the course of the year isn't going to influence the weather by enough to matter.
I don't use it the way many people do … running their AC continuously all season long. It's the first time this year I've run either of the AC units in the condominium, to counteract the way the concrete walls of the building have soaked up heat and were re-radiating it indoors. Since Sunday, I've only powered them up for a couple of hours to maintain a comfortable 84° interior temperature, and they'll likely go off for the rest of the season after this heat wave passes. Oh yes, and I turn them off during peak energy hours since I really don't need them that much and my place doesn't re-warm all that quickly due to the double-pane, thermally insulating windows and such I've installed. Get the place down to 81-85°F with the windows closed and on a 100°F day the heat rise takes seven hours to reach parity with the outdoor ambient temperature. The key to economical, conservationally proper use of power (and keeping the price down) is to keep down the heat soak into furnishings in the interior which we couldn't manage the other day without power to provide the AC. Most of the energy we expended the other night was to get the chairs, sofa, bed, etc cooled off as evening ground and wall temperatures drop those pretty quickly to comfortable levels after the sun goes down. Yes, I do think about all these things. :D G > On Aug 17, 2020, at 9:31 PM, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Pretty darn nasty! My power was restored a few minutes after I arrived home > and I ran the AC through the night". > > So you contributed to the heat wave? > > Alan C > > > On 17-Aug-20 07:05 PM, Alan C wrote: >> Dan Dare survived the heat when he clashed with the Mekon on Venus! >> >> Alan C >> >> On 17-Aug-20 06:07 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >>> I don't know about anywhere else, but around here people are hunkered down >>> hiding from a virus and the current heat wave. Yesterday I spent the >>> afternoon at a friend's house where there was a swimming pool and my power >>> was out. When I got in the car to go home, the exterior temperature >>> recorded 106°F ... Pretty darn nasty! My power was restored a few minutes >>> after I arrived home and I ran the AC through the night. >>> >>> Death Valley recorded a hair higher than 130°F yesterday, putting it up on >>> the record books as "The hottest place on the planet." -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
