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Tilly2 | 19:18 Mon 15th Sep 2014 | How it Works
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than it is outside.

How does that work?
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It's called 'thermal inertia'. The house has a lot of masss, so it needs to absorb a LOT of the outside heat to bring it up to the same temperature, and that takes time. The outside air has very little mass, in comparison, so it heats up more quickly. Be thankful for it. Some new buildings of modern light and strong materials need to have a few score TONS of rocks...
14:08 Tue 16th Sep 2014
fridge door open?
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Fridge door closed, windows closed. Open them? Will that work?
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I'm off to bed. It will be warm there.
Happens every summer.
Gosh, must have missed 'summer' :(
It's called 'thermal inertia'. The house has a lot of masss, so it needs to absorb a LOT of the outside heat to bring it up to the same temperature, and that takes time. The outside air has very little mass, in comparison, so it heats up more quickly.

Be thankful for it. Some new buildings of modern light and strong materials need to have a few score TONS of rocks piled inside in neatly-shaped baskets, to give them a sensible amount of thermal inertia. Without them, they would be like an oven within a few minutes of the sunshine breaking through, and like an icebox very soon after it went behind a cloud.
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Thanks for that, bert. I understand that. It makes complete sense. I shall sit on the patio until as late as possible tonight, with my coat ready to put on when I go inside. :-)
arr it is said that during National Servie someone rang up the CO and said it was freezing inside the barracks and just above outside

and got the answer:


well open the windows man !
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It's ok tonight. How does that work? Last night, I was perished, tonight it's fine. How does that work?

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