Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mhuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!spiegel From: spiegel@mhuxl.UUCP (SPIEGEL) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Question about turning heat off Message-ID: <1259@mhuxl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 17:05:21 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxl.1259 Posted: Fri Feb 24 17:05:21 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Feb-84 07:27:51 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 16 I frequently turn OFF my furnace during the day, and heat the house when I come in. (I actually have a device that listens to telephone rings and I can call the house ahead of arriving home to come home to a heated house.) I do the same thing at night while I sleep. My bills are (as you might expect) very low. Most people have claimed that the cost of heating a house is related to the area under the function relating T_inside-T_outside to time. Others have claimed that it costs more to heat up the house from a low temperature that to have kept the house percolating at a moderate temperature all along. The last argument seem falacious, but are there any conditions where it is true? Please send answers to ...ihnp4!mhuxl!spiegel DIRECTLY, not to net, unless you all think this is an interesting topic to discuss. ...ihnp4!mhuxl!spiegel