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Electricity Savings
According to Energy Star, "as much as half of
the energy used in your home goes to heating
and cooling."
With this much energy being
spent on heating and cooling, it is essential to
install a thermostat that will think wisely about
when to turn on the furnace and AC.
Comfort Window uses an innovative method,
with our Economizer feature, to bring outdoor
air indoors to heat or cool a home whenever it
is possible and advantageous to do so. This is
especially useful in the evenings in the Spring
and Fall months where the air outdoors has
dropped in temperature quickly while the air
inside your home is still hot and stuffy. The
reason that the outdoor air temperature may
quickly fall while the air inside is still hot is that
your walls and furniture hold the heat from the
middle of the day much longer than the quickly
moving air outdoors, and this thermal mass
continues to radiate off this heat into your
living space well into the evening.
evening hours are significant in terms of time
that we spend awake and active inside of our
homes, and so it is important that we can
condition our homes during this time of day.
Traditional thermostats will run the compressor
during these evening times to try to bring this
temperature down, using valuable energy that
does not need to be used. Instead, Comfort
Window will save that money by simply
bringing outdoor air inside.
should be no more reason to manually open a
window in order to drop the temperature in
your home ever again as this process is
completely automated. Comfort Window not
only automates this process, but it carefully
evaluates the outdoor air before bringing it
indoors.
It is important to measure the
humidity of the outdoor air to make sure that
only air that doesn't contain too much humidity
is allowed indoors. This is important because
it is potentially dangerous to allow too much
moisture into your home.
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much humidity you could be allowing into your
home – opening yourself up to potential indoor
air quality issues, letting uncomfortable air
inside, and even problems due to mold or
mildew growth.
Comfort Window constantly
measures the outdoor humidity, taking out the
guesswork as to when to actually open the
windows, and computes the enthalpy to be
sure that only the air that should be let in is let
in. Also, manually opening windows will only
solve the problem when you are able and
willing to go and open your windows. Comfort
Window is constantly thinking about when to
bring the outdoor air inside, thus significantly
reducing your compressor/furnace run-time.
With initial estimates, a user could expect to
see 10-15% savings on the heating/cooling
portion of his or her electric bill during the
Spring and Fall months.
Figure 13: Economizer in Operation
Figure 14: Economizer Closed Off
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