HamRadioRocks wrote:So given all this, why do people have the idea that the object of climate control is to maintain a constant 72 degrees inside all year long? I only find that temperature comfortable during the mild seasons of spring and fall, when the great outdoors don't subject me to extreme temperatures and when my attire is neither very heavy nor very light.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
BurnCalories wrote:While internal body temperature is 98.6 degerees+/-, the temperature of the skin is usually around 72-76 degrees. That is why a temperature around that range is usually comfortable. In the winter you would normally be wearing more clothes, so a lower temp would feel better.
Gideon wrote: I will not be uncomfortably cold or wear coats and scarves in the house until I have no other option. I want to help save the planet, but if that means I wear a coat and a hat in the house, then I'm not sure what the point of living would be - to be chronically uncomfortable?
In most areas of the US you can get cord wood and heat with that for less than NG or Oil or Electric.
Tighten up your house, heat with wood, at least in part, and be warm for God's sake.
BurnCalories wrote:While internal body temperature is 98.6 degerees+/-, the temperature of the skin is usually around 72-76 degrees. That is why a temperature around that range is usually comfortable. In the winter you would normally be wearing more clothes, so a lower temp would feel better.
NeoPeasant wrote:... I might be wrong but I think energy consumption goes up exponentially as the temperature difference increases.
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