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Opening a window in winter in Wisconsin is very much not free... It's a classic OPEX vs. CAPEX tradeoff, plus the climate impact (of course building the ventila
by lultimouomo 5y ago
Opening a window in winter in Wisconsin is very much not free...
It's a classic OPEX vs. CAPEX tradeoff, plus the climate impact (of course building the ventilation system has a climate impact too, so there is a tradeoff there as well).
- dwighttk 5y agoThe one winter I lived in MN I had to open my windows or else the central heating in my apartment would have baked me alive.
- mattkrause 5y agoIn a weird full-circle sort of way, that was (sometimes) the point: it was to allow fresh air to circulate even on very cold days—-and during a pandemic, even. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-05/the-curious-history-of-steam-heat-and-pandemics https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-05/the-curio...
- micromacrofoot 5y agoopening a window for long enough to get CO2 levels down won't likely impact heating bills that much even in cold climates