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It's still absolutely wild to me that airing your apartment/house at least once a day is apparently not a normal thing outside of Germany. One of the culture shocks the pandemic brought me. Lüften Leute!

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Mar 25, 2020

NOTE: Your house’s CO2 levels are likely skyrocketing. You need outside air, it’s not dangerous! Turn on bathroom vent fans (what I do)/open windows to refresh the air inside your sealed box. Internal circulation is important but it’s not enough. High CO2 has cognitive impacts. twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurit…

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It's a large cost/energy usage increase in most places. Even if not for heat reasons (maybe not a problem if building has lots of thermal mass), it requires re-removing humidity from scratch.

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It's -12C outside here and this condo still doesn't normally need heating beyond computers, lights, cooking, a human, etc. Could partially open the door and then run the heat for hours along with having the humidifier needing to put 5L of water into the air to compensate...

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Ontario power is almost entirely clean energy but I'd rather not unnecessarily spend a hundred dollars per month on heating. Our electricity isn't exactly cheap (unlike Quebec) and electric heating like what's deployed here costs a lot more than natural gas (like most houses).

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you can do it, just be smart about it

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Jan 30

People, pls. Germany gets deep negatives temp too. You can air when its cold, you just change the air, not cool down the objects in your house that hold the thermal mass. Do it short and quickly but with windows wide open. Air temp recovers in no time.

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I can believe that solves the temperature problem but not the humidity problem (likely only an issue in warm climate case).

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