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Re: The little box that controls half your home’s energy use

From gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com>
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Subject Re: The little box that controls half your home’s energy use
Date 2015-12-14 13:11 -0600
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On 12/14/2015 11:43 AM, Sam Wormley wrote:
> The little box that controls half your home’s energy use

>
>
>> A thermostat can be such a simple device—so dumb a device if we’re
>> feeling 21st Century snobby—that a strip of metal

WRONG !   it is called bi-metal !

>> coiled up with a
>> droplet of mercury

Why mercury ?

>> at the end can do the job. The coil contracts as
>> it cools,

Why ?

>> the mercury shifts

inside what, and why that material ?

>> to touch two wires and close a circuit,
>> and on goes your furnace. Prefer a different temperature? Rotate the
>> coil.

wrong again, rotate the "coil assembly".


According to the Paris Agreement, Paris will remotly control all 
therostats in the USA.

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The little box that controls half your home’s energy use Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 11:43 -0600
  Re: The little box that controls half your home's energy use "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 10:35 -0800
  Re: The little box that controls half your home’s energy use gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-12-14 13:11 -0600
  Re: The little box that controls half your home’s energy use jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-14 19:47 +0000

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