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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Experts are really saying 10%???? 10% of a number that is based on an arbitrary 0 is silly. So if your thermostat is in fahrenheit and you keep it at 65, you can reduce your temperature by 6.5 fahrenheit degrees, but if it is in celsius, and you keep it at the same temperature, you can only decrease by 3.8 fahrenheit degrees???
percents of temperatures are completely meaningless, unless you are converting to kelvin I suppose.
This whole theory sounds flawed to me, as they seem to be implying some sort of momentum effect with temperatures that doesn't exist.
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Those "experts" certainly aren't experts. The amount of energy to heat everything back to normal temperature would
never be more then the energy required to maintain the higher temperature the whole time. A basic understanding of how heat works and what insulation does would help those "experts" out a great deal.
lowering the temperature while away lowers the average temperature in the room, which means that less energy has to be turned into heat over the time period to heat the room. Less energy required = less fuel used = less cost to resident.
ALWAYS.
