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Box Fans : Windows: My Old Fashioned Green Solution

June 22, 2008 |

I have been working on Green Building and Green Data Center projects lately.  It is an extremely interesting field that I am sure will grow a lot more as energy keeps getting more expensive and scarcer.  One of the things that I have learned is that buildings, during the summer, are often warmer inside than the temperature outside, especially at night — yet people try using air conditioners to cool them.  Buildings accumulate heat during the warm hours, and they take a while to loose it during the cool hours of the day.  Big buildings are built smart and they bring the cool air from the outside into the inside without using the air conditioner or mixing it with the air conditioner air flow.

Up until now, houses are not built with this concept in mind.   I guess that is why windows exist.  Yet, for some reason I think that the cheap energy we had in the past created bad habits in us.  For years I didn’t oppened my windows too much (except when I burned something on the oven and wanted to get rid of the smoke).

So far I have only had to turn on the AC two days at my house.  The rest of the seasson has been handled with window box fans that I can get at my local Best Buy for less than $15 (I only have 3) (in combination with ceiling fans).  They do a very good job of moving hot air from inside the house out and cold air from outside (at night) in.  The cold air I move from the outside into the house during the night lasts for most of the daylight hours during the day (when I may decide to keep my windows shut).

I am amazed at how easy it is to save energy by just deciding not to use it!


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  1. john on June 22, 2008 10:23 am

    I agree, what I do is turn the AC on right before I go to bed. I turn it off when i hop in and the house holds the temperature since it is cold outside. Then in the morning, i turn the thermostat up and close all the shades. When i get home the house hasn’t gone up in temp very much!

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