Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environmental cost

Re:Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environment... by reissbaker on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @08:17PM (#17864093)

I've read some good arguments online in favor of Fahrenheit: degrees are more granular, so you can be more precise without needing decimal points; and in terms of air temperature it more easily approximates the human body (at above ~100 — well, 98.6, but it was intended to be 100 — the air is hotter than your skin, and below ~100 the air is cooler than your skin).

But yeah haha, imperial units of distance, weight and volume are trash; we all know it. I still have to Google how to convert feet to miles, and I was born here. Ounces to gallons? Oof.

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Re:Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environment... by gsich on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @08:40PM (#17864204)

Skin temperature is not 37 °C usually. It's more like in the range 33-34 °C. And drops rapidly when it's colder outside, 15 °C outside ~25 °C skin temperature.

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