hivemind question: ceiling fans? clockwise or counter to make it cooler?
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Aug 09, 2006 3:10:39 pm PDT #1703 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
tommyrot - Aug 09, 2006 3:13:49 pm PDT #1704 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
NO ONE IS TAKING CLYDE'S PLANET FROM HIM DAMNIT.
Can we take the sky from him?
§ ita § - Aug 09, 2006 3:17:02 pm PDT #1705 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
From someplace on the web:
COOLING
The idea of "Wind Chill".
A ceiling fan moves counter-clockwise to cool and provides a breeze that makes the air feel cooler, even through they don't actually lower the temperature. With a ceiling fan working, 78 or 80 degrees can be as comfortable as 72 degrees--leading to big energy savings.
This savings could add up to as much as 40% during the summer. Even at high speed, a ceiling fan typically uses less energy than a 100 watt light bulb .. and less than a 25 watt bulb at low speed.
HEAT RECLAMATION
Warm air rises, so the warmest air is trapped near the ceiling and wasted. Set on its lowest speed IN REVERSE-- so there will be no wind chill effect-the ceiling fan pushes warm air down from the ceiling. In effect, homeowners reclaim lost heat--and lost heating dollars. You can turn the thermostat down and save up to 10% on heating bills while keeping the home warm and comfortable.
sarameg - Aug 09, 2006 3:17:05 pm PDT #1706 of 10001
Article says people only call 4 others on their cell phones. Man, some people are really picking up the slack for me. And I'm not even a heavy user.
My landline is used to call a) the internets, b) the parents, c) the brother, d) R and e) everybody else which maybe totals another 20 calls a year to maybe 5 other farflung family and relatives. But I'm not a phone person.
My dad, thank god*, only uses his cell to call other s&r people and maybe us if he's on the road.
* Because otherwise we'd hear ALL THE TIME how much he HATES cell phones blahblahblah
msbelle, not thinking hard at all about the physics, I'd guess it'd depend on the angle of the blades and where there lived a source of cool air. One way would be circulating air up, the other down. If they work like my floor fans do. If the air is pretty much all one temp and there is no heat source, I'd want it blowing downward, just because I'd feel it more. I think.
-t - Aug 09, 2006 3:19:37 pm PDT #1707 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Picturing the last ceiling fan I had in my head, I think counter-clockwise. You want the leading edge of the blade angled up, I believe.
billytea - Aug 09, 2006 3:31:53 pm PDT #1708 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
hivemind question: ceiling fans? clockwise or counter to make it cooler?
And is it the other way around in Australia?
Cass - Aug 09, 2006 3:37:57 pm PDT #1709 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
From someplace on the webThanks! My ceiling fan is set correctly. I can never remember which way is supposed to work for which season.
Now I'm trying to think up a mnenonic that basically says counter clockwise counts down (time going backwards thus the temperature going down?) and clockwise doing the other thing.
§ ita § - Aug 09, 2006 3:38:02 pm PDT #1710 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Has anyone heard of the handshake induction? I totally want to mind control people.
Allyson - Aug 09, 2006 3:41:51 pm PDT #1711 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
ita, your own head is broken. How do you think you're gonna control other people's heads?
§ ita § - Aug 09, 2006 3:43:48 pm PDT #1712 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I need to control them to make up for my lacks. I'm going to outsource my cognitive functions.
With a handshake! It would be so cool.
I'd like to mind control someone into making me a sandwich, for starters.