Recently I listened to a podcast from an Air Conditioning expert, which I didn't even know existed . It got my brain going about how to stay cool without using an air conditioner. I have been trying some of his tips, plus some of my own ideas, and thought I'd share them here. The results have been very successful, and at my house we now run our air conditioner for only brief periods of time throughout the day while the other tenants in our unit blast theirs almost nonstop. The most interesting thing I discovered is just how arbitrary the standard 72 degrees F is. I am convinced that this temperature is based on wearing a business suit, which people almost never wear in their own homes in the summer. The truth is that there is no ideal temperature. These ways to stay cool fit into three categories: Lowering the temperature of your house, lowering your body temperature, and changing your perception so that the heat doesn't bother you so much. Not all of these steps are practical for everyone, but if you can find one or two that you can turn into habit, it can make a difference in comfort and/or in energy consumption.

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In the evenings, the air outside cools down, but the inside of the house is still very warm. I used to do what most people do to cool a room: position the fan so it blows cool air INTO the rooms. Not the case at all! Trying to push cool air into a room is a slow and ineffective method. My dad — a scientist who also happens to have no air conditioning in his home, but always has a cool house for sleeping (even mid-August)–introduced me to this idea. When we’re home in the north east over the summer, I’m always amazed how the top level of his house can be comfortable and breezy — even in a room with no fan. The secret to his cool house (and now, mine), is blowing air out of the room. When you do this properly, you create a vacuum of air in the room and this will draw cool outside air in another open window. It takes some planning and positioning, but if you can get this system working in your bedroom, your sleep will thank you. Here’s how it works. There are 2 windows involved.

Place a fan in one window facing out, so the air in the room is being blown out the window. You’ll want to make this fit as well as possible, so there’s no space open in the window–the fan should cover the open window space. In my kids’ room, they have a window that opens up, which is ideal. I put the box fan in front of it (I usually put more books than shown above, or a box under it to get it up higher to the base of the window) and closed the window just to the height of the top of the fan. If you have another window configuration, you can take a piece of poster board and place it on top of the fan, so it blocks whatever open space is left. The key is getting it so the fan fits neatly into the window without leftover space. Open another window in the room. If there aren’t two windows in the room you’re trying to cool, you can use a nearby window in the hallway or another room. But this is pivotal: Close off the space. You have to create a vacuum, so that the warm air blown out of one window has to be replaced by cool air from outside (physics!).