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2019-08-22 -Land of the Free

Federal Government Recommends Setting Your Thermostat to a Sweltering 82 Degrees While You Sleep

[PJ] It doesn’t matter what season it is, when I’m in bed and trying to sleep I tend to feel hot. Because of that, I almost always need the air conditioning on. And by having the air conditioning on, I mean I like the air in the room to be about 65 or 66 degrees‐at least in the summer, anyways.

Apparently, that’s a big no-no according to the federal government, which wants us to keep our houses feeling like the surface of the sun.

To keep your home cool with central air conditioning while also optimizing energy efficiency (and therefore cost), keep the temperature at 78 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
The suggestion comes from Energy Star, a federal program managed jointly by the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency that provides information to consumers about energy efficiency practices that not only save consumers money, but also improve air quality and protect the environment.

With record-breaking heat waves becoming the norm, finding ways to beat the heat without busting your budget might seem mystifying, which is why Energy Star provided consumers with a set of energy-saving recommendations on how to best manage central air conditioning in warmer spring and summer months.

It gets worse. According to Energy Star, while you’re not at home your thermostat should be set to 85 degrees or higher. Because who doesn’t enjoy coming in from the summer heat into a stuffy hothouse? What about people who sweat all summer? Apparently, 78 degrees during the day and 85 degrees at night are supposed to be some sort of relief from the outdoor heat.

Really?

As for overnight, they say you can turn the heat down a whopping three degrees and sleep in 82-degree heat. I guess sleeping in a pool of your own sweat is how Energy Star recommends you cool off.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-08-22 01:05|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Again, like the 'scientific research' on sexist air conditioning alterations leading to warmer climes within offices, this a way to make people 'feel the heat'.

Nothing like a mass Pavlovian reinforcement experiment for the daily 'global warming' suggestion. It is well known that repeated suggestion alone may be enough to produce somatoform disorders.

Example: people tend to sweat and feel lethargic if you repeatedly expose them to visual stimuli like pictures and text with themes of heat and fire, even in a cool room.

Add physical discomfort at home and in the office, to the constant innuendo and coverage about a dying planet slowly cooking on capitalist fires and what do you have ? People readier to believe that maybe it is getting hotter than usual. Readier acceptance of 'Green' schemes and industry crippling legislation. And a lot of dissatisfied, sleepless folks. From the democrat deepState perspective... two birds !

"I fear the Greeks, especially when they bring a federal paper." - Cudgel (cousin of Vergil)

Posted by Dron66046 2019-08-22 05:25|| 2019-08-22 05:25|| Front Page Top

#2 They can bite me. Summer: 76 degrees F. Winter: 76 degrees F. those are my A/C settings.

Posted by Blackbeard Thratle8320 2019-08-22 07:58|| 2019-08-22 07:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Ban air-conditioning in DC in August, exempting hospitals. Do it for the children(tm)

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-08-22 09:28|| 2019-08-22 09:28|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm amazed we aren't bombarded with global warming caused this heat wave nonsense on a daily basis this summer. Or is that there and I've become adept at tuning it out now?

Posted by ruprecht 2019-08-22 09:41|| 2019-08-22 09:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Come live in Ga. where it has been 95 plus for 2 straight weeks then try too sell me that shit.

Posted by chris 2019-08-22 10:34|| 2019-08-22 10:34|| Front Page Top

#6 All government offices should lead the way at work and home. Any deviation from this new warmist dogma shall be punished by public burning at the stake.

Posted by Silentbrick 2019-08-22 11:23|| 2019-08-22 11:23|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm getting so tired of this global warming nonsense that I'm starting to root for the coming ice age.

Posted by SteveS 2019-08-22 13:18|| 2019-08-22 13:18|| Front Page Top

#8 78F during the day and 82F at night???? Kiss my hairy white ass, EPA!

Posted by Dave D. 2019-08-22 14:16|| 2019-08-22 14:16|| Front Page Top

#9 It looks as if we just found another federal agency we can do without.

Posted by Tom 2019-08-22 15:06|| 2019-08-22 15:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Fuck you

Posted by DarthVader 2019-08-22 16:17|| 2019-08-22 16:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Amazed the greens haven't been pushing for those geothermal holes with pipes that naturally cool the air using the Earth's own down-deep cooling.

Water in the pipes in the foundation gets really cold which is why you get cold water when you first turn on the shower. You don't have to go much deeper than your slab. If States (california for example) just made a policy/law saying that a loop of venting pipe should be laid through and beneath the foundation and routed around and back up to the furnace area it would have been a game changer in cooling homes at no power usage and at minimal cost to the builders.

But it is about control and not the environment and certainly not comfort.

Posted by ruprecht 2019-08-22 16:33|| 2019-08-22 16:33|| Front Page Top

#12 They need to immediately shut down the AC for this department to provide a virtue signalling example.

If they die, they die

Posted by Regular joe 2019-08-22 17:20|| 2019-08-22 17:20|| Front Page Top

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