Relax, Godfrey. I was only pulling your leg. I completely agree with
your erudite discourse. Here, in the Limpopo Lowveld, we have warm to
very hot conditions all the year round. We do much as you do. Firstly,
having lived here for 46 years we are well acclimatized & dress
accordingly and, secondly, electricity is rather expensive. They way
they built houses here in the early days with normal high pitched roofs
& their accompanying air space was silly - flat roofed houses with a
small air space would have been much more appropriate. I doubt if any
houses here are double glazed but reflective solar film on the glass is
often used.
Alan C
On 19-Aug-20 03:26 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
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."
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