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Re:Google employees who work from home could lose money by CydeWeys on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @09:42AM (#28128734)
A home that has AC running half of the day will use a lot less energy in total than one running all day long. There are substantial efficiency losses from heat leaking in, which will be exacerbated by trying to maintain a larger temperature delta 24 hours of each day. A house is not a perfect temperature battery on the scale of hours, far from it.
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Re:Google employees who work from home could lose money by zajio1am on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @10:27AM (#28129256)
Depends on house type. For american-style wooden houses that might be true, but where buildings are built primarily using concrete with outer insulation, their thermal mass and inertia is much bigger.
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Re:Google employees who work from home could lose money by cycomanic on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @10:21AM (#28129189)
Maybe the solution is not having the AC running the whole time? I mean why do you need your house cooled to 19 degC?
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