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- Patriot-X, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not in some place, Tech. Not in some places.
- onimusha115, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0and they say the inital cost of air conditioning is expensive! like repainting your home and installing new windows isnt, lol
- capajc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Heh, almost every one of their suggestions costs significantly more than installing A/C throughout your entire house.
- UGM2099, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I just turn my oven to cold.
- lollerskates, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, the cost of all the renovation required is a lot more than the cost of an air conditioner.
- Red_Eye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Definately not to late for the south.
- formality, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0After a $400 AC bill during one month this summer (in Texas), this gives me some good ideas. Thanks for the link...
- Magnum2066, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Gotta spend money to make money.
- sandrino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0All these natural ways of cooling your home go only so far. If you live in South Florida, Arizona, Texas, etc. and it is upwards of 95°F in the shade, you are not going to get very cool by natural methods Alone. For example evaporative cooling works best in relatively low humidity environments. Here in Miami it is not uncommon to have 90% humidity in the summer. Evaporative cooling stops working so well when the humidity is very high.
You can do a lot by changing the way houses are built, but houses that are designed to be cooled with A/C are going to be difficult to retrofit. If you go to Key Wet you can see many old homes that were built before A/C. They were built very ingeniously and keep much cooler than homes that are not designed as well. Still, in the middle of summer, when the temperature outside is 95°F or higher and the humidity is somewhere north of 90%, you are not going to feel like you are in A/C. It's better than being in the full sunlight outside but it's not exactly pleasant. I am sticking with A/C. - blockcipher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Its still 106 here. Not over yet! :)
- corcad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good Digg.
Especially for those of us in Phoenix. - darth_vader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cool literally
- Abraxis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Plenty of summer left in MS, seems to run through to Dec here. I'm considering that window film.
- cyberscape2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good digg. Heck, it's still hot in Pennsylvania.
- sarasweet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great stuff! Too bad there's only like 10 "hot" days a year in the mountains. But still, good to know. Now for some tips on how to stay warm during our 9 month long winter.
- jmccorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think I'll hover a small tethered blimp above my house to block all the direct sunlight. That'll take care of those pesky energy bills.
- castufari, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Another cool item is a swamp cooler..aka evaporative cooler. A coworker of mine built a house last year, the walls are concrete with insulation on the inside. Triple pane windows with a protective/uv covering, roof has reflective material. At 3000 sq feet it cost him around 30.00 to keep the place at 73F inside this summer (he's in central NC). Last winter his highest bill was 79.00, where as my electric bill was 45.00 (no ac) and 329 for gas in the winter (old home, the insulation died years ago).
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice Digg!
I live in nevada...its HOT.
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Coffee - techmonk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0two months late.
- sixseven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0use the ground its free
http://www.mb-soft.com/solar/saving.html - brewer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0idiots. everyone knows the best way to cool your house is to leave the fridge door open and turn some fans on.
thermodynamics be damned. - Jibberish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I actually just attached the metallic type of dryer vent hose to the back of my comp case, and built a window insert to accomidate it. It works great, becasue my entire room use to be warm but now it is so much cooler. Those damn incredible video cards, making my room to hot. :P
- goosedotnu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I need to build an exhaust duct for my computer that leads outdoors.
- ArcaneDevice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dull. All common sense things. Basically it's saying shade your house from sunlight.
"Ceiling fans make you feel cooler." Holy Crap! Really? Meh. - Jibberish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The one thing that they failed to mention was that installing a large exhaust fan in the center of the house creates a much better chimney effect. Good article though.
- Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I use an evaporative cooler. Best choice I ever made. It only uses about 400 watts as opposed to the 1500 watts that AC units use! It keeps my house at a cool 65° when its 90° outside. Amazing.
Unfortunately evaporative coolers can’t use in places where the humidity is high. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Ummmm...how would I be able to apply any of this to my computer????
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