Animals & Nature2 mins ago
It's Colder In The House
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than it is outside.
How does that work?
How does that work?
Answers
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
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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 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.
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.