Hot Air Rises, Cool Air Descends....or does it?!
Ever had an argument with someone where you know, either from experience or from massive amounts of logic and science, that you are 100% right? Well I just had such an argument with my mother about, you guessed it, the fine art of heating and cooling.
Let me start of by saying that during the day, it's hot, and at night time, it's cooler. This is a logical progression that most homosapiens beyond the cave-man era have come to understand. Now, imagine if you will, a home that has had a fan in every upstairs window running during a cool night...ok? Now, it's 10am, the air outside is rapidly heating up, while the air inside the house remains cool due to insulation. Wouldn't logic dictate, at this point, that you -stop- pulling in HOT air by removing the fans from the upstairs windows and closing those windows to keep in the cooler air, thus preserving the cooler environs for as long as possible? One would certainly think so.
Well, normal people and my mother don't have anything in common on this issue. She firmly believes that you can keep pulling in that hot air, and somehow, without an Air Conditioner to cool it, guess what, the upstairs wont heat up that much! I mean, to her, there simply is no scientific reason why, when you pull in air that is 85 degrees, that suddenly the room(s) in question will rise to an ambient temp of 85 degrees, plus 5-10 more for the second flood being hit by direct sunlight 95% of the day.
I'm no scholar or anything, but really, this isn't an issue that requires a large mass of braincells to be used to come to a logical, and scientifically -sound- decision on. Oh well, perhaps popping out of the realm of understandable logic has it's benefits.
I'll give it a try the next time i'm wishing for a computer. Perhaps money will drop from the sky instead of from a paycheck, from a job.
Riiiight..... Oh well.
An "Old School" Gamer,
DKnight2066