Posted on September 18, 2017
We are celebrating ceiling fans?
Well, actually, today is a giant experiment: We are asked to turn off our air conditioners and utilize only ceiling fans (and wall fans, desk fans, all kinds of fans) today.
If every American did that, in our homes and businesses and other buildings, just this one day, we would save enough electricity to power all of NYC for months.
That's because central air conditioning systems typically run on about 3 kilowatts and cost about 36 cents an hour to run, whereas a good ceiling fan only draws about 30 watts to run, and therefore costs about 1 cent per three hours of use.
That's HUGE!
Here is a source for those figures, updated to the first of the year.Ceiling fans can look very cool. Here are some neato styles:
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