1/34 This started out as a much shorter thread about a related topic, but Something Happened and now it's a #LifeHack#instructional thread on keeping your house comfortable and saving #money and the #environment, through the magic of air movement. It's also timely, what with it being the start of the northern-hemisphere summer and southern-hemisphere winter.
8/34 Another common option is moving the air in the rooms you spend the most time in. Things like a home #office, a living room, or especially a #bedroom, where you probably spend about a third of your life.
If it's practical and you can afford to, use ceiling fans. In general, they're more effective at moving the air in a #room around than other types of fans, they're more efficient at doing it, they're quieter, and they take up no floorspace and don't have cords to trip over.
10/34 You're probably familiar with a typical "standard" #CeilingFan -- commonly from brands like Hampton Bay and similar.
Small, entry-level models will have total diameters of 44 inches or smaller. They come with stamped plywood blades, which are cheap to make, but which are inefficient at moving air because the unoptimized blade shape -- i.e., flat -- creates too much turbulence, wasting energy. It also creates more #noise.