Dude.

[merlinofchaos]

There's some really interesting material in my house that has these insane heat properties.

So the pattern of temperature in the house goes like this. It's quite cool in the mornings (in fact, starting about 3am, it's usually downright cold), and it stays quite comfortable all the way into afternoon. Starting about 3pm (or later, depending on the heat of the day) the house starts to heat up.

Now, here's the thing. Once the sun goes down, you'd expect things to level off, right?

Well. Wrong.

The house will continue to warm up even though it's cooling off outside.

It takes, on a normal hot day, until about 1am to get back to tolerable -- and that's assuming we're doing everything we can to bring outside air in, use the wimpy little a/c we have, etc.

I want to know what material it is that is absorbing all that heat, and then releasing it later. I want to sell it--all of it--because I'm sure it'd be very valuable in materials research. And then once it's sold it wouldn't make my house suck.

Well. Today it's forecast to get to 102 here. The record for today in San Jose is 102 and the NWS report is confident that record will be broken today. The only place that will be tolerable today is on the very coast.

Sigh. I want real AC.

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[tersa.livejournal.com]

But it's still not the 111 of three years ago.