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From: spiegel@mhuxl.UUCP (SPIEGEL)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Question about turning heat off
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Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 17:05:21 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 24 17:05:21 1984
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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.

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