Thermal Stupidity
By Malcolm Hedges (07/30/08)
How many times have you entered a public building or business and been subjected to freezing temperatures in summer or sweltering heat in winter?
A really serious waste of electrical energy is by mindless pampered government bureaucrats and equally mindless pampered business operators.
It has little to do with the Green agenda or other environmental BS. Responsible energy consumption is the reality.
One size fits all is a not a good model, appropriate thermal considerations should be suggested and enforced if ignored.
Lettuce examine a couple of simplistic examples:
1) It's summer in an area that has temperatures averaging around 100 degrees F, guess what, temperatures inside a building at ~80 degrees F would often be very comfortable. But the building management thinks that 72 degrees F is what's needed? Persons entering the building suffer temperature shock and energy consumption is wildly inflated.
2) It's winter in an area that has temperatures averaging around 45 degrees F, guess what, temperatures inside a building at ~72 degrees F would often be very comfortable. But the building management thinks that 78 degrees F is what's needed? Persons entering the building suffer temperature shock and energy consumption is wildly inflated.
Local humidity can make a big difference in perceived temperature, so can clothing directives or requirements.
I suggest a lot of electrical energy is wasted each day by environmental wimps that refuse to adapt to their local thermal environment.
Likewise a lot of energy is wasted by various operations that have no concept or respect for flagrant excessive energy consumption.
Our home runs at ~83 degrees F in the summer and ~76 degrees F in the winter(The wife has particular issues with lower temperatures). The computers don't really appreciate the 83 degrees F, but they run.
The energy crunch is a monster created by many factors, stupid usage is just one of them.
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