Should We Turn Down The Thermostat?
I do have a question that is similar to the point you made regarding an idling car. A co-worker and I had a debate about whether it is energy efficient to turn down the house thermostat during the day ( after leaving for work in the morning (7am) since no one is home) to say 50 degrees, then have it turn on automatically at say 3pm to 67 degrees to warm the house up for a 6pm return. My co-worker contends that too much energy is consumed to return the temperature to 67 to make it economical. Do you have information on this?
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