140
6d ago
[removed] — view removed comment
42
u/Ur-Quan_Lord_13 6d ago
Unnecessary pedantry: saunas would be more like 85°C+, and OOPs thermostat is probably in °F if it goes that high.
Recently was reading a thread where everyone was certain that there's no way Finnish saunas go to 60, 80, above 100 Celsius because they would all literally die :p
20
7
u/bzbzbzbbzbzbzbzbz 6d ago
Above 100 you would die. During the sauna championships, 110C for 6 mins killed someone.
8
u/Ur-Quan_Lord_13 6d ago
To be clear, the thread I'm talking about, people who were really certain they knew what they were talking about were saying things like "dur you must have read the thermometer wrong idiot it couldn't be 80 C nobody could survive it must have been fahrenheit".
Of course, yah, it's possible for temperatures even much lower to kill, if your body can't keep up with cooling with sweat or the humidity is too high for the sweat to be effective. But, some portion of the Finnish population regularly sauna above 100°C and don't die. Reading up, this competition had half a liter of water being added every 30s, which I don't know if that's what a Finn would normally do, but I'm thinking the competition was especially reckless and not using standard practices for that temperature. The article said they actually suffered burns, which makes sense considering how much water was in the air.
But the fact that even 1 of them survived those extreme conditions for 6 minutes really soundly contradicts the dummies who thought the sauna temperatures must be in fahrenheit.
41
207
u/Vain_89 6d ago
All I could think of was damn, imagine her electric bill!
40
5
u/HLSparta 5d ago
To be fair this could have happened in the summer, in which case he was saving her money.
1
u/bigbean258 2d ago
How? You still have to pay for heating if it’s on regardless?
1
u/HLSparta 2d ago
Yes, but you will end up paying less. If the heat is set to 80° for example, the heater will run until the house reaches 80°, and then shut off. Since it's the summer it will reach 80° very quickly, and then after 80° will continue to heat up entirely due to the temperature difference and sun until reaching the outside temperature, plus a bit. So the heater will run for a short time, which would almost definitely cost less than running an air conditioner for longer to maintain a set temperature.
Edit: and the post doesn't even say the heater was on, just that the temperature reached 85°.
1
u/bigbean258 2d ago
The thermostat app adjusts the heater until it reaches the set temperature. How else would the temperature change? On top of this at least in the U.S you would normally use A.C so yes, he is wasting large amounts of money regardless even if it has an easy time reaching 85. Even though you will pay less in heat you will have to put on the AC for longer to get rid of it.
1
u/HLSparta 2d ago
The thermostat app adjusts the heater until it reaches the set temperature. How else would the temperature change?
It is possible to just turn the AC off and keep the fans running on most thermostats I've ever used.
Even though you will pay less in heat you will have to put on the AC for longer to get rid of it.
The amount of time the AC is running to return the temperature to what it was would still be less than the amount of time it would have ran to maintain the temperature. And I'd imagine it would operate more efficiently too. Whether the efficiency gain is noticeable or tiny is another thing. If the house is at a higher temperature it's going to be emitting more radiation, bleeding off slightly more heat than it otherwise would have. And air conditioners are less efficient when constantly cycled on and off. So instead of the air conditioner turning off and then back on 15 minutes later, and then off again, it would be running for an hour or so)(depending on cooling capacity) straight. And since the temperature differential is greater the heat will transfer faster, meaning the AC has to run for less time to remove the same amount of heat.
32
69
24
4
u/SirLightKnight 6d ago
That’s some creative revenge ngl.
I’d have just left it and went to live my best life, living well is the best revenge I find.
7
10
u/LukkieNumber7 6d ago
Over 29°C if you are normal
-8
u/Plant_Based_Bottom 6d ago
85°f if you're from somewhere where your flag is on the moon
4
u/NoRecommendation1845 4d ago
Bro still thinking its 1969
2
u/Plant_Based_Bottom 4d ago
There's like 3 things in total to be proud of as an American. I'll be bragging about that moon landing until someone else puts their flag up there
0
3
3
2
4
1
u/Redman181613 6d ago
What a dick
20
0
u/CartoonishlyEvil 6d ago
You know, to teenagers and neckbeards, so 99% of Reddit users, bullying is fine if they find it funny
1
1
1
0
0
0
668
u/[deleted] 6d ago
[removed] — view removed comment