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- From: macrakis@osf.org (Stavros Macrakis)
- Subject: Re: How to cut back my heat bill?
- In-Reply-To: bullock@watson.bms.com's message of Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:30:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <MACRAKIS.92Nov23103235@lakatos.osf.org>
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 10:32:35
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- In article <20NOV199216305953@watson.bms.com> bullock@watson.bms.com (JOAN BULLOCK) writes:
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- You are correct. To a point. Interior walls and objects in your home
- do have a latent heat capacity which must be overcome when you cycle the
- temperature.... When you increase the temperature of your thermostat,
- your furnace will run until _all_ of the interior (walls, possessions as
- well air) has risen to the desired temperature. Because it takes longer
- to heat up most of the interior of your home than it does to heat up low
- heat capacity air, you probably _feel_ warm before your heating plant
- settles into temerature maintenance mode....
-
- All this is true. However, it does not mean that it is uneconomical to
- reduce the thermostat setting for any particular period of time. What it
- does mean is that you should set the thermostat to start raising the
- temperature some time before you want it at that temperature. Conversely,
- you should set it to let the temperature fall before you actually want the
- lower temperature.
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- -s
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