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Some Ideas For Keeping Your House Cool.

Some Ideas For Keeping Your House Cool.

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I wish to share with you some ideas on how to help keep your house stay cool.  These ideas have come from years of trying different actions and techniques.

  • A real important factor that you should try to achieve is to cool your house the best way you can so as to deeply cool the house structure as possible.  Think of these factors:
    • Cool the core portion of your house for as long as possible.  The cooling concept here is time.  It takes a long time to get the behind the walls to cool down.  Once these areas are cool they then act as sources for cooling.  Reasoning behind this method is if it takes a long time to cool the inner walls of your house then those areas should still be cool the next day when the temperature rises.  Those inner walls should be a cooling source!  So, consider start cooling when the outside temperature drops below your current house temperature.  This may be very late afternoon or early evening.  I have a very good inside the house thermometer (NEST), which I can view on my cell phone.  I compare that temperature with a good reliable Internet service provider web site.  I like The Weather Channel as I have found it to be reliable for my location.  Just a suggestion, you might consider buying a good outside thermometer that is WiFi capable so you can double check what The Weather Channel shows.
    • CAUTION:  Do not think you know the outside and inside temperature by how it feels on your body. Use science by looking at a temperature gauge.
      • Open windows when it gets cooler outside than in your house.
      • Close windows when the outside air gets within one degree of the pending outside temperature rising.
    • If you use any kind of window dressing such as sheer curtains, be aware that they will impede the free flow of air.  I do not like sheer curtains covering any window that I might want to open when it is cool outside.  I typically slide the sheer curtains open and closed as I think best.  If y0u think you need to keep a sheer curtain in place to maintain privacy, consider placing one or two ends of the curtains in line with the window opening so that, if there is a breeze, the curtains will be blown out of the way with the breeze or wind.  You will loose privacy when this happens but the curtains flapping back and forth might meet your requirements for some privacy.
  • Please be aware that turning on lights in a room will add heat into that room.  Tungsten light bulbs typically generate more heat than florescent bulbs but florescent bulbs do add some heat, just less than tungsten.  Compact Florescent Lights (CFL) and LED bulbs emit way less heat.  LED bulbs are the coolest because they emit very little heat.  Reference: https://brennan-electric.com/the-pros-and-cons-of-led-lights/
  • Another option to consider is to install window awnings where sunlight can pass into a window typically from the south, east and west.  Sun light passing into a window will heat the inside of that room.  I do not yet have these installed but I hope to soon.  A small rather nifty advantage is that you might be able to keep a window open when it rains if it has an awning.  Awnings are reported to increase the value of a home some times.

 

Posted:  June 19, 2024
Updated: June 20, 2024
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Consider Running For A Republican Party Office.

Consider Running For A Republican Party Office.

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Please contemplate running for a Republican Party office.  Listed next are some requirements and beliefs that our future Republican Party candidates should ponder and see if you agree with some of these party beliefs and ideals:

You should understand that Fascism is a way better form of government than Democracy.  You should not reveal that this is your intent.  You only need to impose it’s mission.   Democracy is so messy to administer while Fascism is singular in purpose and simple to install and enforce upon the public.  Also, a politician who portrays himself of her self as an authoritarian, often times comes across as being a decisive and powerful person.  The American public generally want strong leadership and will look past the actions you take if they can be seen as working for what is best for the ruling class and the party.    The modern Republican party is hurtling towards fascism.

As a fascist, you can believe that women should not have the right to an abortion, that women are not rulers of their bodies but men are.  You can outlaw abortions if you are a Republican.   Abortion was a 50/50 issue. Now, it’s Republican quicksand.

As a racist, you can ban books.  The rising Republican movement to defund public libraries.

If you agree that supporting the poor and vulnerable is a waste of money, then you are for being a Republican.

3 myths about the poor that Republicans are using to support slashing US safety net

You believe that no person can or should practice homosexual activities and beliefs.  You believe that every person was born heterosexual.  This is a wonderful way to exercise power because the homosexual community is very small and lacks power to oppose you.   Texas GOP platform embraces far-right and anti-gay rhetoric.

You agree that global warming is a hoax perpetrated by Democrats to thwart the business of mining, gas exploration and extraction.  The businesses of extraction can support Republican politicians financially to a significant level.   Extraction Oil Gas Gave 10 Million To Political Causes.

You believe that the NRA is not to blame in any way for gun violence in the United States and anyone should be able to buy a gun with no age restriction.  The NRA is also a significant political payment supporter.  How Much Influence Does The NRA Have Over Politicians?

You support and believe that the IRS should not be allow to inspect the super rich tax forms with any more care and inspection than a homeless persons.   The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax.

You do not need to have a very high intelligence quotient to be a Republican, in fact, it really helps you get elected by being seen as simple.   Who’s Smarter? Republicans and Democrats in Congress.

When you declare and list your prior history, you are allowed to lie about any and every aspect, every item.  It has been proven from prior history that pandering to the embellishment can really help your total vote numbers even when based on lies.   Study: PolitiFact says Republicans lie more.

 

But, there are some hidden problems for the fascist Republicans:

 

 

 

Posted:  5-30-2023
Updated:  5-31-2023

Ambient Weather Station WS2000 Failed To Send Data To A Web Site. SOLVED.!

Ambient Weather Station WS2000 Failed To Send Data To A Web Site. SOLVED.!

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I currently have a WS2000 weather station (highly recommend) which sends it’s readings to a terrific desktop terminal and if you want also to a web site.  This whole system functioned perfectly until I decided to install a better WiFi router, Archer AX75 (highly recommend).  I obviously have to reconnect the weather station system to the new router.  The weather display console does show my router and I ask the display to connect but I never see a “Connected” response.  The weather display was located quit a distance from the router but half the distance between router and the weather station device.  I reasoned that the display was picking up the weather station readings.  I wanted the display to work with both router and weather station and should be close to both.  Problem at my home is the router is at one end of the house and the weather station is at the other end of our back yard.  I also removed an old router that was very close to the weather display.  The web site displaying the WS2000 station results were not updating.  What a pain.  It took hours to solve this problem.   I finally went into my iPhone cell phone application for my router called Tether and found QoS (Quality of Service) setting under Tools and added my WS2000 to receive priority connection to the Archer AX75 router.  The router lists all the devices connected.  I found the weather display address behind the plastic hinge allowing the display to stand vertical.  It is this single address that I selected from a long list of devices shown as router clients.

THAT WORKED!!!

Now when I go to the website where I inserted the the WS2000 weather results, I now see current updates!  

HURRAY!  (What a mysterious pain.)

 

 

 

Posted:  March 14, 2023

Possible Reasons For The End Of Humane Civilization

Possible Reasons For The End Of Humane Civilization

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Following is a list of major important reasons and issues that are drawing down the curtain for human habitation on Earth.

There are two broad types of issues. The first is major but possibly will not end the humane civilization.  The second should be of supreme concern because if not solved or resolved the end of the humane race will more definitely result.

Here are side concerns that probably will work against solving these very important problems that I will list later:  

  • Ignorance of any factor may come about for any combination of reasons.
    • Blind side by failing to see what is coming as a threat to our existence.
    • Insufficient investigation efforts.
    • Unable to understand the measurements needed and what the tests results mean.
    • Status of experts is not understood or appreciated so they are not listened to.
    • Not listening to the scientists to any level that results in meaningful action.
  • Indolence.
    • Population of people that are affected may fail to meet the challenge to change their situation for the better.  There are a lot of reasons why individuals fail to realize they are in trouble and then take actions that resolve the issues.
      • Too busy with other concerns.
      • Not my business to deal with this problem.
      • Too complicated for me to understand.
  • Errors in judgement.
  • Political interference.  Almost all civil societies are organized around some sort of organized political system.  Some times these systems are flawed toward working for the best interests of the society they are expected to correctly function toward.
  • Personal and corporate wealth interests might prevail as being more important.  Many countries suffer from varying degrees of plutocracy or the rule of the rich.  Some wealthy individuals who have attained political power seem to hold short term financial gains as more important.  

Almost all of the end of civilization factors need long term attacks upon these negative influences so that a society can best work together to resolve the problem(s).  

Just about every one of these issues can be turned around but often times immediate needs of individuals deny resolving any of these items I am about to list.

First Category of attacks upon our civilization list (but might not terminate humane life but could). 

Note that some items on the list below could become so life threatening that they then also reach the second category.

  • Climate change (immediate concern)

“According to the paper, climate change poses a “near- to mid-term existential threat to human civilization,” and there’s a good chance society could collapse as soon as 2050 if serious mitigation actions aren’t taken in the next decade.”
https://www.livescience.com/65633-climate-change-dooms-humans-by-2050.html

  • Global nuclear annihilation (Following example shows how a small limited war has a colossal impact)

 “If India and Pakistan had a war, it would be a much larger potential for climate change.” The solutions to that cold equation: 50 to 125 million people dead in the first week. A reduction of as much as 35 percent in sunlight reaching Earth’s surface, translating to a decrease in temperature of up to 5 degrees Celsius, with rainfall decreasing between 15 and 30 percent globally … and the amount of food produced by an equal amount. That’s worldwide famine for a decade.”

https://www.wired.com/story/even-a-small-nuclear-war-could-trigger-a-global-apocalypse/

  • Biological warfare

“Any state with a reasonably advanced pharmaceutical and medical industry has the capability of mass producing biological weapons. This fact also leads to problems with determining what countries have BW programmes. Anything from a piece of fruit to a ballistic missile could be used to deliver a biological weapon to a target. Along with this is the fact that with certain organisms, only a few particles would be needed to start an infection that could potentially cause an epidemic.” 
https://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/resources/fact-sheets/critical-issues/4579-biological-weapons

  • Ecological collapse.

“One-fifth of the world’s countries are at risk of their ecosystems collapsing because of the destruction of wildlife and their habitats, according to an analysis by the insurance firm Swiss Re.”

“Natural “services” such as food, clean water and air, and flood protection have already been damaged by human activity.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/12/fifth-of-nations-at-risk-of-ecosystem-collapse-analysis-finds

  • Pandemic

“A pandemic is basically a global epidemic — an epidemic that spreads to more than one continent,”

“Influenza pandemics have struck about three times every century since the 1500s, or roughly every 10-50 years. There was one in 1957-1958 and one in 1968-1969. The most infamous pandemic flu of the 20th century, however, was that of 1918-1919. An estimated 40 million people died in less than a year, and what made it so different from seasonal flu epidemics is that it killed primarily young people, those aged 20-45.”

https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/features/what-is-pandemic

Contamination of humane individual life supporting needs and resources is very important.  Humane beings need:  Good drinking water, good clean air to breath, healthy food, proper sanitation, adequate shelter, clothing, etc..

Second Category of attacks with results of terminating humane life – a list:

Global Warming

“Two centuries of fossil fuel combustion have saturated the biosphere with climate-altering carbon that will continue wreaking havoc for generations to come.  The damage to Earth’s living systems—the circulation and chemical composition of the atmosphere and the ocean; the stability of the hydrological and biogeochemical cycles; and the biodiversity of the entire planet—is essentially permanent.”
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-08-10/four-reasons-civilization-wont-decline-it-will-collapse/

PFAS Contamination

“There is evidence that exposure to PFAS can lead to adverse human health effects.”

https://www.epa.gov/pfas/basic-information-pfas

“A growing body of science has found that there are potential adverse health impacts associated with PFAS exposure, including liver damage, thyroid disease, decreased fertility, high cholesterol, obesity, hormone suppression and cancer.”

“These chemicals can easily migrate into the air, dust, food, soil and water. People can also be exposed to them through food packaging and industrial exposure.”
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/14/health/what-are-pfas-chemicals

 

 

 

Posted March 22, 2021

Global Warming Is The Most Important Threat to Our Country and Our Near Future Existence.

Global Warming Is The Most Important Threat to Our Country and Our Near Future Existence.

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Earth is being destroyed by some of us. Because of the actions or lack of action of a few individuals, global warming will cause close to 8 billion people to die.  Life on planet Earth may die off due to the actions of some humane beings.  Such a horrendous crime against civilization calls for new penalties. A new top legal level needs to be added to our world legal system which is applied to all nations and all people.  The purpose of this change to our legal system is to help the future survival of Earth, if it is not too late.

The people of the United States and the United Nations should consider penalties for those individuals, businesses, corporations and groups participating in the endangerment of the United States and planet Earth to the extent that it is determined that either or both will cease to survive in the future. If it is determined that such activities of those individuals  includes working toward exacerbating climate change to any significant degree, determined by scientists, the following actor activities shall be penalized for those efforts:

Actor Activities:

  • Direct or indirect owner or anyone having any control interest in any business that creates product or activities that enhances endangerment to the future of Earth’s future survival.
  • Any individual who is solely or part of a larger lobby group who’s effort is to impede the efforts of stopping climate change.
  • All politicians and judges who make legal rulings that are found to allow other actors to move their activities forward to damage Earth.
  • Any person’s activity that is deemed meeting the level, set by a ruling body of scientists, of being significant enough to contribute to damaging Earth.

Criminals Defined:

  • Any individual or group that directly or indirectly is involved in harming Earth’s climate to a significant degree determined by scientist and the courts.
  • Any individual that holds control over any other person, agency, business and/or corporation which has significantly contributed in the expected future extinction of any portions of Earth.

Significant penalties shall follow after the courts have made the determination that those individuals have significantly participated in the criminal act shall incur the following penalties.

Penalties:

  • Removal of all current and future assets from those individuals and their value is transferred to the state.
  • Removal of all control including stock price benefits and their value is transferred to the government.
  • Confiscation of all tangible assets including past and future family and business inheritance.
  • Removal of all personal stock sale benefits now and in the future.
  • Seizure of all property owned by the individual.
  • Removal of all personal inheritance and inheritance of any wealth or value component given to family members prior to being charged with this crime in an effort to hide those assets.
  • Seizure of any gifts given to family or friends, prior to being charged with this crime, in an effort to hide those assets.
  • If the activity of individuals reaches a high enough level, determined by the courts with the advice of scientist as to the level of involvement in propelling climate change, either of two penalties will be applied. If a low level of criminal activity, incarceration for life. If the criminal level is high, termination of those people from living by the act of a public execution shall take place.

Twenty percent of all seized assets will go to government administration for this program and the remainder assets will be distributed to agencies working toward stemming climate change.

 

Posted: February 19, 2019

 

Observations For Keeping A House Cool

Observations For Keeping A House Cool

The following list comes from my impressions of what I have tried and think works or not for keeping a house cool.  None of these views are based on exacting research.  This is just my casual observations and thus I can be incredibly wrong or not.  These are some ideas for you to consider.

Local Geography

I live near an ocean coast and thus the water temperature most of the year is much cooler than inland.  Further inland there is a desert and these two geographical bodies sort of come into conflict.  When the sun rises in the East, where the desert is for us, the desert earth warms up causing an updraft because heat raises from barren soil, very little vegetation.  The cooler air over the ocean moves across the land to make up for the rising air deeper inland but heats up the more it travels from ocean inland.  This local air movement is called an ocean breeze.  My house has south facing windows which face this breeze and this is a terrific solution for us to cool our house when the sun goes down.

Temperature Reading Location

I frequently check the outside temperature using thermometers mounted in shady spots, front and back of the house.  The back or north side of the house is enclosed by high cement block walls which stagnates the air a bit from the ocean breeze. The North side of the house also has a pool is almost always 5 degrees hotter than the South side because the water stores the heat for a long time.

I have noticed that the thermometers mounted just outside our north and south windows really are in error.  The pool and stagnate air around it due to the high walls makes for about a 5 degree increase in temperature.

The South side temperature gauge is also a bit wrong because the house and ground near the gauge radiates heat from soil and building.  The whole house acts like a stored heat source for quite some time.  We have a wide driveway on the South side of the house which really stores heat for a long time.  The point I am trying to make is to be aware of your surroundings when placing a temperature gauge and always keep it out of direct sun light.

I have discovered that I must walk more than 20 feet south of the house to gain a more realistic feel for how hot or cold the ambient outside temperature is.   The house and all the cement driveway, sidewalk, stone work planters and any standing water store heat.  The outside temperature is definitely hotter closer to my house.  This became apparent when I checked my cell phone to see if it was cool enough to open the South windows and allow the ocean breeze to flow into the house.  The cell phone weather applications would show for example 76 degrees but the temperature gauge would be close to 80.  When I walked away from my house, the ambient temperature seemed to more closely match the weather application on my cell phone.

Cell Phone and Computer Weather Applications

I am quite annoyed with my cell phone weather applications reporting accurate up to date temperature readings.  I use Yahoo Weather, AccuWeather and The Weather Channel cell phone applications.  Readings can differ between products by as much as 7 degrees.  Readings can lag real time by as much as 15 minutes.  This may depend upon how you set up your cell phone for how quickly it receives updates.  Most applications allow you to force a weather update.  I recommend that you use different methods and try to get a consensus.  I recommend at least two weather applications, look at your outside temperature gauges and you might even walk outside away from your house to “feel” the temperature as a final check.

Air Flow

A very, very, important factor to consider is air flow, direction and intensity.  Almost always our house has a flow from the southern direction and almost no air flow from the North. For this reason, we put fans into the North facing windows to bring the cool outside air into the house in rooms where we get no south to north air flow.  I discovered that rooms with only North facing windows seem to never change inside temperature.   I have to use window fans.  We do not need to put fans in the other half of the house because we have South facing window rooms and if we open the bedroom windows on the South and North side of the hose, the air from the South rooms will flow right through the North bedrooms.  If privacy is an issue and someone closes their bedroom door this whole airflow cycle stops and we resort to window fans.

A real annoying science fact that throws a lot of people off is that a breeze will feel cool but you should never use a breeze to decide when to open windows of a house.  Always depend upon a temperature gauge and not how cool the air feels.  Example: if you are outside and feel a cool breeze and then open the house windows you must realize that that cool air flow typically will not be felt inside the house.  The cooling effect takes place when you receive the breeze upon your body directly.  You may be letting in hot breezy air into a cooler house if you do not follow this advice.  It is way better to look at the outside thermometer first to “see” what the temperature actually is.  Try to use science.  If the thermometer shows a higher temperature outside than inside your house, just park yourself outside the house, in the shade, in a comfortable chair, to enjoy the apparent cooler air flow experience.

A nifty trick is to put a fan in a room to get the internal air to circulate.  We love to use the vertical fans that cycle back and forth.  The room will feel less stuffy and the air flow across your body will provide a cooling effect.

Temperature Difference

Another important factor to consider is temperature difference.  If the outside air is just a few degrees cooler than the inside of our house, I tend to not turn on fans to get that cooler air into the house.  I am way more willing to turn on a fan if the temperature difference is more significant.  By this, I mean that if the inside air temperature match, lets say at 77 degrees and I had the air conditioner on set for 77, I will turn the AC off but not open windows. The reason is outside air close to the coast is typically moist but air inside the house has had the moisture removed by the air conditioning process.  You may reason that there is no reason not to open the windows and shut the AC off at 77 but I think you would be wrong.  Instead, I coast what the AC provided by turning off the AC and keep the windows closed until the outside temperature drops a few degrees more, typically fifteen minutes to a half hour.  Reason?  Moist air will feel hotter.  If I open the windows too soon we feel hotter due to the rise in moisture.

 

Updated:  3-6-19 because AccuWeather link time out thus removed.