Honest to God, I have no idea how the narrator pulled this off with a straight, serious voice. Half a century later it’s still some of the funniest stuff in TV history.
I dunno. I saw a laundromat for “whites only” in Memphis once.
It depends on how the ceiling fan is set. Is it blowing air down, or sucking it up? (To save energy, set it to blow in the winter, and suck in the summer.) Edit: That’s if the problem is that some rooms don’t get as much air circulation as others, that is. Works well in churches with tall arched roofs, for example.
Because air movement near the windows helps to mix the inside and outside air. We do this and it helps.
Not to mention: hot air rises. A fan, by moving all the air in the room, will more evenly distribute that hot air. I could see that (all else being perfectly equal re motor heat, wall heat etc.) it still making the temperature near the humans be a little hotter. OK, unless the human tends to float up around the ceiling…
A ceiling fan circulates the air in the room by pushing air down in the center and along the floor toward the walls, which causes air closer to the walls to be pushed up, across the ceiling, and then down again. The air moving up past an open window will pull in some of the cooler air through a vacuum effect. Counter-productive if the outside air is warmer than the indoor air temp, obviously. It’s not as effective as having a fan in the window blowing exterior air in (which isn’t always desirable, as explained upthread), but it helps.
I have a faint memory of my Grade 2 teacher telling us that earwigs are so named because they try to get into your ears, and when they do they burrow into your brain and cause brain damage.
What are you saying here? That people don’t point their fans so that they blow out the window? Because I’ve seen it done hundreds of times.
I think that she’s trying to say that you can’t permanently mount one of those fans in a window because then you can’t access the controls or something. I’m not sure why the knob, the manufacturer’s logo or the label that says “front” is relevant otherwise.
Re: fans
When I lived in a second floor apartment, with no AC, in the mornings I’d turn the fans so they pulled in cold air, then shut the windows until it got hot. Then I’d put the fans so they pushed hot air out. Sometimes - shock! - I’d have it so one pulled cooler air from under the trees and the rest pushed out hot air.
Yes, the cord stuck out the ‘back’. I just shoved it into the window harder and made sure I shut the window really tightly.
Unless they’re a twiddle bug most people know that if they turn something around the other side is still there and can be accessed by turning it around again.
Window fans I’ve owned have had a switch labeled intake/exhaust.
there are box fans (totally enclosed, free standing, can be used on the floor) and there are window fans (only stay upright if a window closes on the top of them, very old ones might have exposed blades to the outside).
many box fans have top controls in the center or on the side so to be controlled easily from either side. i have seen some older ones with controls offset to the exhaust side of the fan.
i’ve seen older window fans where the fan was offset and would come into the room, there was a pivot to have the fan blow either direction. more modern thin windows fans might have controls on both sides to be controlled from the inside.
Have fun with it.
Tell him that it would leave more oxygen in the air, leading to exploding forests from lightning that very quickly will destroy the entire earth.
Teacher said the Arctic was a continent.
Of course, the person who pointed this out got the usual “you’re factually correct, but that’s not as important as not correcting the teacher.”
Okay…
I can see how in an attempt to dumb down a rather complex process there might be misunderstandings, but to say that a microwave heats by kerjiggerin’ the water isn’t too far fetched.
Both my mom and my teacher think that space tourists go all the way to the moon.
Thermo/Aero Dynamics is a damn hard thing to predict, even low speed air currents in rooms. There really isn’t way to be positive which will be best for all situations, unless you want to model your place and have every air molecule mapped in a super computer simulation, you just gotta experiment and see what works best. One summer I started turning on my ceiling fan and it made the room noticeably cooler. I thought it was great until I saw my power bill. The place gained heat quickly but very efficiently trapped most of it by the ceiling. Turning on the fan pushed all that heat and scrambled the room air so that the thermostat got the hot air more and ran 6 times as much. So that even all the useless air at the ceiling was nice and cool, and wasting my money. i turned off the fan, and dropped the thermostat a couple degrees and got the air I live in cooler for only about 30% more AC rather than 600%.
the place I live in now I figured out that the most efficient place to put a fan was on my patio with the door totally closed. It’s mostly enclosed and gathers a bunch of heat floating up from my below neighbors AC compressors, and gets about 10-12 degrees hotter than the ambient temp. Then that nasty heat transfers through the nice big glass door and heats up my place. By running a vortex fan on the patio all day I can keep it around 2-3 degrees above ambient, and much less gets into my place that I need to AC away.
This is a t-shirt I bought in Vienna. Apparently, there are people who think Austria and Australia are the same thing, and Vienna is the capital of Australia. According to the concierge at my hotel, about once a month people arrive from the airport and ask how to get to the outback. If they want to know where they can see kangaroos, he directs them to the zoo. He said they never had this problem back when people used travel agents.
What have you seen exactly?
This is not the type of fan I was referring to.
I think the confusion started when I mentioned my mom’s “window fan”. You know why I called it that? Because it was in her window.
Silly me, ( and every single person I’ve ever known.) I knew that the above type existed, but when someone around here mentions a window fan, they are referring to a box fan.