78 Degrees is the Lowest You Should Set Your A/C According to Government

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Rob Fox - Rare.us


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Keep your laws suggestions off my hot body, government! According to Energy Star, a federal program from the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency, in order to help both the environment and the energy grid from being overburdened the coolest you should be keeping your home this summer is 78 degrees (26C). That’s just when you’re home. And awake.

Energy Star says that people should have their air conditioning set at 85 degrees (29.4C) when they aren’t home (sorry dogs!) and 82 degrees (28C) when they’re sleeping. That’s an interesting idea, government pencil pushers, but there’s a logical fallacy with your plan. I can’t physically fall sleep in an 82-degree house because I didn’t grow up sleeping outside in Arizona. Therefore, since I’ll be wide awake, I’ll have to keep the A/C at 78 degrees. Then I’ll have to call in sick to work because I didn’t get any sleep at work and keep my home at 78 degrees even longer. Before you know it the ozone is gone, our children are being lit on fire by the sun, and it’s definitely all your fault not mine.


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Policing the temperature people keep their homes at seems like a secondary concern. If the government really wants to make an impact they should tell every office building in America not to dial their thermostat down to 60 degrees every single day from April to October. There hasn’t been a reasonably climate-controlled office in the United States during the summer in roughly 40 years. My home being set to 73 or 74 — because that’s a reasonable temperature — isn’t doing one one-millionth of the climate and energy damage all the forty story igloos in Dallas are doing.
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If you would like to follow the government’s recommendation and turn your home into a yurt on a steppe in Mongolia then, by all means, feel free to do so, but personally I feel more inclined to ask every business in America to do us all a favor and cease attempting to give us hypothermia during the summer months before I’m forced to bake in my juices until I eventually fall asleep out of frustrated exhaustion every night at 3:00 a.m.

[lost in melb.]

My penis says otherwise

[Teh One Who Knocks]

We keep our thermostat set at 75° when we're home and at 78° at night or when we aren't home. There's no way I am going to set the temp to 78° during the day when it's hot as fuck outside. I want to be comfortable, not hot inside my own home.

[Muddy]

I'm 72 degrees year round with a ceiling fan set on medium over top of me as well.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I'm 72 degrees year round with a ceiling fan set on medium over top of me as well.

I'd totally have the ceiling fan on in the bedroom but the wife doesn't like it on, so :rolleyes:

[Muddy]

I'd totally have the ceiling fan on in the bedroom but the wife doesn't like it on, so :rolleyes:

Luckily it's directly over me and not her.. :dance:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Luckily it's directly over me and not her.. :dance:

Plus I'd have the thermostat set to 74° or maybe even 73° sometimes, but then when it's set that low, the kid and the wife are putting on sweatshirts FFS. I think the kid is mentally defective anyway, in the middle of summer she's wearing long sleeves and long pants, sweatshirts and the like, but then in the winter when it's 10° I'll beat her home in the afternoon and she's wearing a windbreaker and a t-shirt. :shakehead:

[Muddy]

Plus I'd have the thermostat set to 74° or maybe even 73° sometimes, but then when it's set that low, the kid and the wife are putting on sweatshirts FFS. I think the kid is mentally defective anyway, in the middle of summer she's wearing long sleeves and long pants, sweatshirts and the like, but then in the winter when it's 10° I'll beat her home in the afternoon and she's wearing a windbreaker and a t-shirt. :shakehead:

Dude, my 15 year old will wear a sweatshirt in the middle of this oppressive heat.. It may just be a thing these days...?

[KevinD]

Mine is at 80 during the day ( summer) starting at 17:00, it ramps down to 76 by 20:00. My home and roof are shaded, perhaps 75%. Pretty good insulation too. 80 is comfy to me in side, as long as I'm not working on anything. My studio stays at 78 in summer. Its 100% shaded.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Dude, my 15 year old will wear a sweatshirt in the middle of this oppressive heat.. It may just be a thing these days...?

I guess...it seems like whenever I'm out, mostly on the weekends, it will be blazing sun and in the upper 90's to 100° and there will be these kids out wearing black sweatshirts, and sometimes even hoodies with the hood up....like WTF?


Mine is at 80 during the day ( summer) starting at 17:00, it ramps down to 76 by 20:00. My home and roof are shaded, perhaps 75%. Pretty good insulation too. 80 is comfy to me in side, as long as I'm not working on anything. My studio stays at 78 in summer. Its 100% shaded.

That's the problem with my house, I get the full force of the sun all day, from sunrise until about 6 PM in the summer before the sun finally gets blocked a bit by trees. So the indoor temp in my house goes up FAST in the morning as soon as the sun gets some altitude.

[Hal-9000]

air conditioning..


:rofl: :lol: :lmao:

[fricnjay]

I keep my upstairs at 74 all the time and downstairs the same when I'm not there. When we get home from work it goes down to 70 downstairs, we like it cold when we sleep.

[Hal-9000]

This is weird. All of you guys live in hotter climates than me yet you keep your homes way hotter.

Me - 18C at night and 21/22C during the day.

That's 65F at night and 71F max during the day.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

This is weird. All of you guys live in hotter climates than me yet you keep your homes way hotter.

Me - 18C at night and 21/22C during the day.

That's 65F at night and 71F max during the day.

In the winter the thermostat is set to 72° when we're home and set to 63° at night or when no one's home.

[Hal-9000]

In the winter the thermostat is set to 72° when we're home and set to 63° at night or when no one's home.

That's about my range. I read somewhere if you want to keep bills down don't vary the range too greatly between night and day. My range is typically 3 or 4 degrees.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Mines at 78 all the time, 78 is fine

[Muddy]

Mines at 78 all the time, 78 is fine

No way, Steamy.. :hand:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

ITS FINE!

[Pony]

I typically turn mine down a few degrees once the sun goes down, much more efficient to cool the house when you're not fighting the sun. I gotta sleep in a cool room. Here at the Island I keep it cooler than my better insulated house.
Off when I'm at work, on a timer to fire up an hour before I get home. 72 while I'm home and 68 at night.

[RBP]

The thermostat is on the other side of the room from the wall unit. 71 is the set point for 77 across the room.

[Muddy]

I typically turn mine down a few degrees once the sun goes down, much more efficient to cool the house when you're not fighting the sun. I gotta sleep in a cool room. Here at the Island I keep it cooler than my better insulated house.
Off when I'm at work, on a timer to fire up an hour before I get home. 72 while I'm home and 68 at night.

I like a tomb as well when I sleep.. Give me a big ol comforter and a cool breeze..

[Godfather]

I don't have central A/C as it's only really hot enough to need A/C a few weeks a year... but when it is, I set my little portable A/C at about 66f/18c overnight :lol:

I want governments to take emissions more seriously.... but 100 companies are responsible for 70% of emissions, so my 8 hours of A/C use a few weeks a year is a fart in the wind and they can fuck off. Energy is so damn cheap in Vancouver too because we have hydro, so my bill only goes up a few bucks a month in the summer.

[lost in melb.]

I like a tomb as well when I sleep.. Give me a big ol comforter and a cool breeze..

You Big American Capitalist Pig :burp:

[lost in melb.]

I kicked my Aircon to the curb. I open the windows at night , then shutters during day.

Big ceiling fans essential though

[Muddy]

I kicked my Aircon to the curb. I open the windows at night , then shutters during day.

Big ceiling fans essential though

You better watch out for snakes...

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Trust me, if I could have the a/c set to arctic at night I would. That's why I have the heat down so low in the winter, it's the only time I can keep the bedroom that cool without the wife bitching :lol:

[Muddy]

"set to arctic".. :lol:

[Godfather]

Trust me, if I could have the a/c set to arctic at night I would. That's why I have the heat down so low in the winter, it's the only time I can keep the bedroom that cool without the wife bitching :lol:

Same here, I love sleeping in a freezing cold room.

I read someone explain the biology behind it a while back. Basically it's something to do with the millennia of humans living under the stars and sleeping at night when it cools down being programmed into us. Most of us need our body temp to fall 2 or 3 degrees to be able to fall asleep still as a result. It's also part of the reason it feels so good to take a hot shower before bed, it's not only relaxing but as you're drying off you cool down and get sleepy.


My cat on the other hand... he likes to take a shit right around the time we go to bed, and that gets him fired up to tear ass around the house for 45 minutes when we're trying to fall asleep :|

[lost in melb.]

You better watch out for snakes...

Flyscreens :hand:

[Hal-9000]

I like the heat and most of you USA'ers are a bunch of heatbags living in a sauna :lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I like the heat and most of you USA'ers are a bunch of heatbags living in a sauna :lol:

You can move to Phoenix, they just had back-to-back 114° (46C) days this week :tup:

[Hal-9000]

You can move to Phoenix, they just had back-to-back 114° (46C) days this week :tup:

That's kind of my point. Most of you guys live in a lot warmer climates than I do and keep your house at 78? :lol:

If it was 100 outside I would be keeping the house around 18C (64F) at night and maybe 67 during the day.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

That's kind of my point. Most of you guys live in a lot warmer climates than I do and keep your house at 78? :lol:

If it was 100 outside I would be keeping the house around 18C (64F) at night and maybe 67 during the day.

I would totally be on board with that, but the wife and kid thinks it's 'too cold' in the house when I have the thermostat set to 74° :roll:

[Hal-9000]

My brother is the opposite of me. Him and his wife are larger people and they like arctic conditions.

I've had too many mornings when it's 14C in the house and -30 outside. You try to shower and your feet stick to the floor because of the cold :x