Fresh air – inefficient when you open windows

If there’s one thing that I miss during the summer living in the South, it’s fresh air.

There just isn’t enough to go around.

When you walk outside every day if the air is so sick and humid that it feels like you can swim through it. It isn’t a refreshing experience to fill your lungs with a mouthful of hot wet air. In fact, it feels a bit like drowning. There’s rarely a breeze outdoors so the air is just stagnant and unpleasant in every respect. Rather than feeling refreshed by being in nature, you just feel wet and sticky all the time. Things aren’t really better when you go inside either. Instead of feeling hot and wet, everything is cold and bone dry. This really isn’t much of an improvement. Instead it your shocks your system, and will end up getting sick a lot of the time. I’ve been trying to find ways to correct these two air conditioning extremes, but so far I haven’t been very successful. For the past few months I’ve been experimenting with leaving my window cracked open just a little bit at night, to let in some fresh air. I know that it’s not a smart idea because I’m running the AC inside my house, but I’m so tired of living in dry artificial air that I thought it was worth a shot. I’ve been cracking the window just an inch or two and hoping that some of the outdoor air will flow in and help to balance out the high quality indoor treated air. Instead, I think I’m mostly just letting bugs at night.

 

 

Cooling products