Everyone point your fans at the sun, we need to move the planet a bit further away from it.
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Submitted 3 hours ago by HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to memes@sopuli.xyz
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DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
cRazi_man@europe.pub 1 hour ago
Are you trying to blow out the flame?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 hour ago
I think in the grand scheme of things this would only work by slowly stripping the atmosphere but I thought the plan was to use the combined reaction force part of an action-reaction pair to slowly push Earth farther away from the son.
Sort of a decentralized propeller engine idea.
honesthenery@thelemmy.club 1 hour ago
🤣
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
If you turn it off, it will cool down and seize.
honesthenery@thelemmy.club 1 hour ago
I just take it appart… clean the electrical contacts and oil the motor spindel with 3 and 1 oil. I have yet to figure out which capacitors that will work with these box fans when they overload and die. If you catch it before they poop out you can keep em going forever. Like a marine cleans their rifle I clean my fans. I can do it in like 10 minutes. Zip zip blam fan
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Can confirm. My office fan needs me to kickstart it with a pen before it rattles to life
Thorry@feddit.org 3 hours ago
YSK: Running your fan when you are not in the room actually warms the room. Fans don’t actually cool anything, instead they help the human body more efficiently cool itself. It also helps churn the air in the room, which might make it feel fresher depending on the situation. But it only works directly on humans, because we use evaporation to lose heat. Fans however do use a lot of power and most of that power gets turned into heat, warming the room. So when there’s nobody in the room, turn off the fan.
This obviously doesn’t apply to fans that draw or push air somewhere else. A fan in a window, with another window open opposite can be useful without anybody around. Pro tip: If you want to cool the room you’re going to be (the bedroom for example) using outside air, don’t put the fan in the window in that room. It’s much more effective to put a fan in another room blowing outside and having the window in the room you want to cool the only other open window. It draws in cool air much faster, cooling down the room. Also don’t put the fan directly in the window, fans create a column of air that gets wider with distance. If you put the fan in the window, the column doing the work is about as large as the fan, which is presumably smaller than the window. By putting the fan a bit away from the window, the column can push on the whole area of the window, improving airflow. The optimal location is usually around 1m away. depending on the fan and window.
janus2@lemmy.zip 27 minutes ago
TIL it’s more effective to put the fan ~1 m from the window
unfortunately I cannot put the fan ~1 m from the window because my apartment is cramped af :[
snooggums@piefed.world 2 hours ago
Circulating air to even out temperature differences can make a room far more comfortable even if it isn’t being used to actively cool. Running a ceiling fan pointing up in the winter will help when the ceilings are higher for example.
Shrubbery@piefed.social 1 hour ago
Fans however do use a lot of power
Nope. Most room fans are 75W or less, that isn’t much power and the heat generated from a fan is negligible compared to the cooling effect of moving air.
Are you a bot?
Thorry@feddit.org 1 hour ago
No? Why would I be a bot?
75W is a lot of heat to be pumping out all the time. In a closed room that can heat it up a lot. Especially in modern German homes with their excellent isolation and triple glazing.
And larger fans can easily go up around 100W or more. Sure it isn’t a lot compared to a 3000W space heater. But it isn’t exactly nothing either. And given it would be running for a long time, that energy adds up.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 hours ago
It can be beneficial when combined with some other (thermostat controlled) heating or cooling.
The fan circulates air in the room, making the temperature of the air in the room more uniform, and giving the heating/cooling device’s thermostat a better sense of the room’s actual temperature.
In a room with an air conditioner and a poorly placed thermostat, a fan could be helping the room stay cooler.
Thorry@feddit.org 1 hour ago
Running an air conditioner when nobody is in the room? Sounds like a true American tradition
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Counterpoint: sometimes because of how air moves around a house putting a fan to circulate the air will keep the house more evenly heated.
Source: My living room is in a circulatory dead end and air just hangs out there without a fan. (Though a low fan in the doorway is enough.)
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 51 minutes ago
chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Last time I tried to clean my old one it decided to kill itself, and I’m not sure how close I was to an electrical fire.
danekrae@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Isn’t that also kinda what happened to the man in the photo IRL?
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
That was load bearing grime.
Mucki@feddit.org 2 hours ago
Dirtiness keeps you healthy. Even though noone wants to hear that.
honesthenery@thelemmy.club 1 hour ago
The capcitor will poop out I think before that happens. Some have a thermal sensor aswell
MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Needs to be a gif where it starts shaking a tiny bit for like 30 seconds
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 45 minutes ago
I cleaned mine last month! Now I don’t have to do it again for another 5 years.