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When we are away in the winter we turn the thermostat back to the mid-50s (F) to save a little oil. Our normal waking temp is about 64, cooler overnight. When I got back last night, the house was at 54, and I didn't do anything about it. After a chilly night and a many-layered morning, I set it up to 58, and now I am about to remove a layer. Over years, we settled on 64 because Arthur felt that 63 was too cool. That is more precise than one could be in C. Considering how old our (hot water radiator) system is, it's hard to believe that the thermostat could be that accurate, but it's our impression that even one degree F really is noticeable.
I was thinking about me of my 20s. My room in the 4-5 person apartment I lived in during the late 1970s (first floor of a Somerville triple decker) had a non-functioning radiator. There were mornings when I could see my breath. We kept the whole apartment fairly non-hot (I don't remember the temperature setting, but I remember frequent disputes about cost vs comfort). The pipes taking hot water (steam?) from the basement to the higher floor ran through our bathroom. I also don't remember how we managed that many people with one bathroom when most of us had to get to work at about the same time, but I do remember people running down the hallway to get dressed in the tropical heat of the bathroom, rather than in the bedroom chill. I wouldn't want to live like that now, but I also lament the size of my carbon footprint. Without actually going through the calendar for the year, I would estimate that I've been on at least 50 airplanes this year, and my mother's car (which I use to take them to appointments and errands) gets terrible mileage. What's a good organization to donate carbon offset money to?
edit - the coincidence of the day is the XKCD comic about Felsius, a combination of the two scales
https://xkcd.com/
I was thinking about me of my 20s. My room in the 4-5 person apartment I lived in during the late 1970s (first floor of a Somerville triple decker) had a non-functioning radiator. There were mornings when I could see my breath. We kept the whole apartment fairly non-hot (I don't remember the temperature setting, but I remember frequent disputes about cost vs comfort). The pipes taking hot water (steam?) from the basement to the higher floor ran through our bathroom. I also don't remember how we managed that many people with one bathroom when most of us had to get to work at about the same time, but I do remember people running down the hallway to get dressed in the tropical heat of the bathroom, rather than in the bedroom chill. I wouldn't want to live like that now, but I also lament the size of my carbon footprint. Without actually going through the calendar for the year, I would estimate that I've been on at least 50 airplanes this year, and my mother's car (which I use to take them to appointments and errands) gets terrible mileage. What's a good organization to donate carbon offset money to?
edit - the coincidence of the day is the XKCD comic about Felsius, a combination of the two scales
https://xkcd.com/
