Over lunch on Thursday we were discussing energy efficiencies because of all the Green Building nonsense going on in California right now, and someone asked what temperature we had our thermostats set to in the winter. I hadn’t really thought much of it, but between the six of us, I was the only one at 62 degrees Fahrenheit, and the rest were either 68 or 71. Exactly either of those two. (How strange that there wasn’t more of a range.) So, I was shortly the topic of conversation as to how I could live in such a frozen environment. To be fair, though, while my thermostat is set to 62, it rarely gets that cold. Even with the windows open most of the day, the heater only kicks in around three or four in the morning. Which wouldn’t be a problem, except the thing is so loud that it wakes me up, and I have to turn it down to 59. Not a big deal because I’m in bed, but showering at 5:30 in the morning is another story.
Do you live Green at 62, or are you burning fuel in 71? Higher?
For the record, I’m not setting my limit so low for the sake of the Earth, but because it’s not _that_ cold to me most of the day. Sure 62 is quite chilly, but I’m usually asleep during that time of the day. Nestled nicely.
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Six Degrees Of Temperature Separation was first posted to justinll.com on December 12, 2008.
My house is either 72 or 73. Depending on my temperature.
Going green is the new recycle movement of the 90’s. In other words it’s a shiny happy good feeling crusade. We won’t be off fossil fuel until the 22nd century and we won’t have to worry about running out of the grand ‘ol fuels from eons past until the green river valley shale starts drying up. Last I heard there is still 2 trillion barrels sitting underneath those Mormons. If I was you. I would marry someone who owns a lot of useless tumbleweed acreage in Utah. They’re sitting on a gold mine.
The Europeans/Western World are barking up the wrong tree with ITER. Large scale top heavy government programs aren’t innovative enough to work. They tragically go down the wrong rabbit hole wasting billions of hard working peoples dollars because of well, because they can. All in the name of “creating” jobs. Just like the bulls**t recycle campaigns, but that’s another story. Soon enough a group of curious college kids, a la Googol, will make a fortune out of their garage bread fusion reactor built out of old Macintosh’s and Chevy Nova’s. So if I was you I would invest in General Fusion. They’re sitting on a gold mine.
Tootles,
Your pal Jesus
68 is about the max I can handle while visiting others, so that 72 or 73 you and yours are sporting will definitely keep me away.
It’s not as warm as you think. I’m not going topless by any means.
That 72-73 is fighting off the cold that is the back slider that is kept open for my 5 month old puppy.
Remember to make mine Marvel.
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I’m a 62 as well! It is funny when greenies will start that conversation and then you tell them that you are at 62. I think you need a new thermometer. That old house has to be colder than that.
I keep two different thermometers, so I’m pretty sure the temperature is about right. I’ll admit that it is much colder when I keep the windows open, so I’ve been shutting them.