{"items": [{"author": "Sophia", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/949218137122?comment_id=949218596202", "anchor": "fb-949218596202", "service": "fb", "text": "Do you like the whole-house fan? How well do you find it works when we have a lot of hot days and fairly hot nights in a row?", "timestamp": "1530797504"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/949218137122?comment_id=949218596202&reply_comment_id=949219319752", "anchor": "fb-949218596202_949219319752", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;I like the whole-house fan more than the previous setup of putting fans in the windows, because it's less hassle.  When we have very hot days coming up I still do some amount of putting fans in windows, though, because I want to cool the house as much as possible.<br><br>This approach definitely doesn't work as well when the nights are hot; it's all about exploiting the temperature difference, and you're not going to get the house all the way down to the nighttime low.", "timestamp": "1530797903"}, {"author": "Kelly", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/949218137122?comment_id=949232029282", "anchor": "fb-949232029282", "service": "fb", "text": "How much Summer heat anf yearly energy expense would you save if the refrigerator evaporation coils were exposed on an outside wall? :-)", "timestamp": "1530804244"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/949218137122?comment_id=949232029282&reply_comment_id=949250701862", "anchor": "fb-949232029282_949250701862", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Modern fridges are super efficient, so maybe but that much", "timestamp": "1530814802"}, {"author": "Gawain", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/949218137122?comment_id=949271969242", "anchor": "fb-949271969242", "service": "fb", "text": "I've measured that boiling a pound of pasta raises my room temperature by 3F and the relative humidity by about 10% (I live in a ~400sqft studio with high ceiling). After an hour the temperature usually settles down but the humidity doesn't.", "timestamp": "1530826060"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/949218137122?comment_id=949271969242&reply_comment_id=949274713742", "anchor": "fb-949271969242_949274713742", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Makes sense that humidity wouldn't regress. Suggests timing showers and dishwasher is the most important.", "timestamp": "1530826928"}, {"author": "Gawain", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/949218137122?comment_id=949271969242&reply_comment_id=949275547072", "anchor": "fb-949271969242_949275547072", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Yeah, unless you have a really good vent in the bathroom", "timestamp": "1530826960"}, {"author": "Gawain", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/949218137122?comment_id=949271969242&reply_comment_id=949275577012", "anchor": "fb-949271969242_949275577012", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;But that would suck in outside air", "timestamp": "1530826973"}, {"author": "Andrew", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/949218137122?comment_id=949323635702", "anchor": "fb-949323635702", "service": "fb", "text": "You could plug the toaster into a \"kill a watt\" meter and see how much energy it's using, then see if your empirical heat measurements match what the meter says.", "timestamp": "1530850088"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/949218137122?comment_id=949323635702&reply_comment_id=949325127712", "anchor": "fb-949323635702_949325127712", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;135W *is* the measurement from a kill-a-watt meter", "timestamp": "1530851160"}, {"author": "Andrew", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/949218137122?comment_id=949323635702&reply_comment_id=949325586792", "anchor": "fb-949323635702_949325586792", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Ah, I read the comments but didn't click through to the article on your site.", "timestamp": "1530851597"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/949218137122?comment_id=952089902082", "anchor": "fb-952089902082", "service": "fb", "text": "After talking to more people I think part of what is going on is I have a higher preference for, and tolerance for, humidity. For example I'd prefer 75 and humid to 95 and dry, while David has the opposite preference. Air conditioning is drier than I'd like, while for other people the humidity decrease is a bonus.<br><br>In general, the more you prefer dry air the more air conditioning makes sense, whole more you prefer/tolerate humidity the more whole house fans and swamp coolers make sense.", "timestamp": "1532659149"}]}