Is Air Conditioning Bad for You?
Heisenberg
2012/08/03 18:00:00
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Air conditioning is stale and recycled air... so it's not a big surprise that there's a belief that it's not too good for you. Do you buy it?
SLATE.COM reports:
SLATE.COM reports:
A few weeks ago, an academic journal called Weather, Climate and Society posted a curious finding about how Americans perceive the heat and cold. A team of researchers at the University of Oklahoma asked 8,000 adults living across the country to state both their political leanings and their impressions of the local weather.
Read More: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/s...
Top Opinion
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Jimbo 2012/08/03 16:10:52
Air conditioning - however "old and stale" as it is - has SAVED people.
It makes me think of a part time job I had when I was in college. I worked at an insurance company and the boss thought that keeping the temp between 58 and 60 degrees would make people work harder so they would stay warm. (sitting at desks no less) What an idiot! Everyone was always sick and in the summer headaches were the norm from enduring temperature extremes.
To cool your house down, have plants near your windows, put a fan near the window blowing in and a fan near your window blowing out.
Turn on the fan over your stove and keep your curtains closed.
The house will be cool - even in Florida - yes, I used to live there without air conditioning - in Key West.
As long as you have a breeze and circulation to extract the heat inside, you don't need air conditioning.
If you want to cool your house down and you are in a single home or can dig into the ground, dig a tube about a foot to 2 feet wide the length of 4 feet - 8 feet down into the ground and let the natural temperature of the ground cool your house by venting the pipe into an open window.
The wider the pipe that goes into the ground, if it is bent and leads into an opeinging in the wall into the home, your house will cool off very fast.
It's cost effective, saves on electricity, is quiet and doesn't pollute.
~Your'e hot an you're cold you're..~
Like I don't even want to remember the last time out A/C went out here, ugh, it was so bad that my parents were concerned for my health so we had to get out of the house and get a hotel room. Too bad I had to go work later... and the A/C was out there too (and I worked at Subway, with all those ovens right behind the workers) so eventually my manager was all like "Okay you're still new and you look like you're literally about the pass out so go stand in the freezer for a few minutes then go ahead and go back home, I think I'm going to have to close early anyway" and so that's exactly what I did.
So is A/C bad for me? Considering it's kept me from passing out or dying from heat stroke, no I don't think it is. Fun fact, I've always hated the heat, when I was brought home from the hospital I cried all the way home because I got sick from the heat. My parents were freaked out. Not just sick either, my first few days in the world and we pretty much all a...
Like I don't even want to remember the last time out A/C went out here, ugh, it was so bad that my parents were concerned for my health so we had to get out of the house and get a hotel room. Too bad I had to go work later... and the A/C was out there too (and I worked at Subway, with all those ovens right behind the workers) so eventually my manager was all like "Okay you're still new and you look like you're literally about the pass out so go stand in the freezer for a few minutes then go ahead and go back home, I think I'm going to have to close early anyway" and so that's exactly what I did.
So is A/C bad for me? Considering it's kept me from passing out or dying from heat stroke, no I don't think it is. Fun fact, I've always hated the heat, when I was brought home from the hospital I cried all the way home because I got sick from the heat. My parents were freaked out. Not just sick either, my first few days in the world and we pretty much all agree that was also when I had my first migraine.
I really don't care if the air is "stale", it's better than me collapsing from being too weak to move (while I'm inside I might add, because that's what happens when it's too hot).
If I didn't get such bad headaches/migraines, then maybe heat wouldn't bother me so much, but oh well.
My wife & I suffered from alergies and blamed the HVAC. We did all the above. Now our alergies are gone & we both are off of alergy medications. Drink conditioned water & avoid hormones, chemicals & preservatives. These can trigger alergies that are often blamed on HVAC.
I work in the HVAC field. I have more tips if you like. There is so much you can do to improve the quality of life in your home.
Its a windy place to be, it was like has if someone had a hair dryer on you, thank god there was AC in the rooms.
Is it bad for you, i don't know all the facts, but we would not have slept out there with that heat, has for opening window and doors eventually after a while the temp outside will be the same has inside, and there was no insect nets so we would have been bitten to death.
Till then we never had colds or flu, after the central heating went in we had colds and flu.
I used to keep the small fan on hot and have a bath, i was able to jump out of the bath grab a towel and land in front of the fan,Bruce Lee would have been proud of that jump, it was so cold in that bathroom i used to squat on the toilet to pee and i was a boy!
But i was out in t shirt when all my friends would be in thicker clothes, they would say here he comes "ice man"
Now i do have more colds and feel the cold more.