thomsbrain
Lifer
Your heating and cooling expert's job is to make people use their heat/cooling equipment more. that's why he exists.
unfortunately for him, the physics tell a different story. when your house is warm in the winter, it dumps energy faster than when it is cold. therefore if you have a 12 hour period in which 10 hours were cold, you will use far less total energy than if you left it warm all 12 hours. do the math. it's a fact, not speculation.
BTW,we did this experiement in a college physics class i took a few years ago, using accurate instruments and controlled enviroments. the data signifigantly supported the hypothesis that letting the temp drop and raising it again saves energy compared to keeping it hot the whole time.
unfortunately for him, the physics tell a different story. when your house is warm in the winter, it dumps energy faster than when it is cold. therefore if you have a 12 hour period in which 10 hours were cold, you will use far less total energy than if you left it warm all 12 hours. do the math. it's a fact, not speculation.
BTW,we did this experiement in a college physics class i took a few years ago, using accurate instruments and controlled enviroments. the data signifigantly supported the hypothesis that letting the temp drop and raising it again saves energy compared to keeping it hot the whole time.
