On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 06:22:52 -0500, Omelet <omp_omelet@gmail.com>
wrote:

>In article <46e32418.2032012479@news.ucdavis.edu>,
> me@privacy.net (TammyM) wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:38:04 -0500, Omelet <omp_omelet@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >In article <1189133556.147861.277130@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>,
>> > Sheldon <PENMART01@aol.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> It will cost you less if you leave your central air at one setting all
>> >> the time and get rid of that window unit... every morning when you set
>> >> your thermostat 10 degrees lower it costs more to bring your entire
>> >> house back to the day time setting than it costs to run it all day...
>> >> and the larger the house the more it will cost.
>> >
>> >I try to convince dad of this very thing.
>> >I'll come home in the morning from work sometimes and the AC will be OFF
>> >and it'll be almost 80 in the house.
>> >
>> >Takes a good couple of hours to cool it back down.
>>
>> Jesus. 80 is too hot for you?! How much do you "cool it down", to
>> what temperature?? I SET my AC at 80!!! Then again, it almost always
>> **really** cools down here at night, and I run the whole house fan for
>> 20 minutes or so to blow out the attic - otherwise, it's like having a
>> radiator on top of the house.
>>
>> TammyM
>
>I'd die if I kept the house at 80 degrees...
>
>I don't like walking out to the kitchen and sweating from that small
>effort.
>
>The humidity here increases the heat index drastically.
>You don't live in South Texas...
>
>The humidity factor can increase the heat index by 10 degrees or more.
>We cool it to 72.

I just don't understand that "die if I kept it at 80" but folks are
different. I don't like sweating when I'm exerting a small effort
either but I also don't like high energy bills. But you are quite
right, we don't have the humidity factor, that's for sure. We are
discouraged from setting the thermostat lower than 78 in summer
(higher than 68 in winter), and I try to set it at 80. And I don't
turn it on at all and leave the windows/doors open if the weather is
predicted to be 94 or under (once again, acknowledging our
significantly lower almost nil humidity). I do very little cooking
during heatwaves too! I don't know what is the population of Austin
(you're in Austin, right Om?), but we're always hearing dire warnings
about taxing the power grid here. Hell, sometimes I'll just forego AC
altogether and go sit outside on my back porch area with a fan pointed
directly at me and a water spritz bottle :-)

TammyM