Text 17867, 72 rader
Skriven 2007-07-11 21:15:58 av hap newsom
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson
Ärende: RE: A SORRY LOT WE ARE 70711
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G'day Glen!
-> 
->  -> Portable coolers of that type are sold here, but I use the ducted
->  -> cooler, with a cube on the roof containing the evaporator screens, fan
->  -> and water pump.  It is connected to the water mains, so there is no
->  -> need to keep refilling it.  Down below in the house there is only a fan
->  -> switch and speed control, and a water pump switch.  Ducts in the
->  -> ceiling take the cooled air to all rooms. If conditions only require a
->  -> little air movement, or the rapid dispersing of cooking smoke, the fan
->  -> alone is used.  For cooling the water pump is also switched on.  It is
->  -> cheaper to buy and run than the refrigeration type a/con, and quieter.
->  -> In my climate, where hot and humid conditions rarely occur, the cooling
->  -> effect is quite adequate.
->  -> 
->  HN> Works well for you then, others needs may be more varied. Presently 
we
-> 
-> One of my pet dislikes is air conditioning which is too hot in winter
-> and too cold in summer.  Some people seem to want to demonstrate the
-> power of their control over their environment by living an unnatural
-> life.   I prefer to heat or cool just enough to reduce the extremes to
-> achieve comfort.  The evaporative cooling system does that well.
-> 
We use as little heat in the winter as we can get by with...keeping the house 
thermostat set at about 65 during the day and 60 at night. During the 
summers we open the windows in the morning when the air is coolest and do 
our best to get the house as cool as we can before the heat of the day sets 
in. Then in the evening when things start to cool down again we repeat the 
process with fans blowing intake at one end of the house and exhaust at the 
other! 

->  HN> are  in Sebastopol California...having a wonderful time visiting with
->  HN> daughter.  When we drove down here the central valley of California
->  HN> (from Redding to  Sacramento) was in the 100's. We stopped for the
->  HN> night in Redding and at 10  pm it was still over 100 degrees....whew!
->  HN> The next day we were in Davis CA  and it got up to 110, 113 in
->  HN> Sacramento about 40 miles east of us....once we  got to the coast
->  HN> (Bodega Bay) north of San Francisco it was MUCH nicer with  temps 
in
->  HN> the 50's and 60's and foggy mornings. Since then the temps in the 
-> 
-> With those extremes, you would definitely need some cooling!  (I would
-> need some heating in the colder coastal areas.)
-> 
We are loving it when it's cool...our kind of weather! When it gets up into the

80's it's too hot for us to do much!

->  ->  ->  -> It is an area of several hundred square kilometres.  Filling in
the
->  ->  ->  -> drains would retain the water and return the area to 
swampland, 
-> 
->  ->  -> Possibly a series of shallow sumps could collect the water from the
->  ->  -> surrounding swamp areas, and this could be pumped to a central 
->  ->  -> 
->  ->  HN> See you already know what to do!
->  -> 
->  -> Yes, but nobody asked me!  And  the dairy farmers would probably 
object
->  -> to being kicked off their land.
->  -> 
->  HN> Ship them off to Queensland! (grin)
-> 
-> A lot have already gone there.  Every winter a lot of Victorians
-> migrate to Queensland.  Some take their cows with them.
-> 
Well they are certainly Moooooo-ving along nicely then!
chat with you soon
hap 
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