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- From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: What is the best working temperature for workstations?
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 21:41:35 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw writes:
-
- >My point is that raise the temperature up to 25 degree C (72 F) is good for
- >1. human body health
- >2. saving energy.
-
- Low temperatures increase the basal metabolic rate, hence burning
- fat and generally making the human machine chug a bit. Better for
- health than "comfortable" temperatures.
-
- I grew up in a age where the cold glass houses were the only homes
- of computers. So the chill of a computer room comes with psychological
- associations :-) If it's room temperature I don't quite get the
- same thrill.
-
- But what _is_ a good technical answer to the question of what (say)
- 28 C does to a Sun workstation?
-
- Thanks,
-
- -ans.
- --
- Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu
-