The whole house fan

Sacramento has a perfect climate for a special home appliance called the whole-house fan. I called sacramentowholehousefans.com and they set me up with a wonderful whole-house fan that is quiet and of high quality.

Sacramentowholehousefans.com webpage is simple and in a way underestimates the service that I got from them. What they could advertise is that a thoughtful and licensed contractor and energy specialist would come by the house and discuss it with us, and then have a guy put it in and do a professional job. He also gave me lots of invaluable energy saving advice for my energy independence project.

The fan is called the airscape 1.7 and it operates at only 70W at low speed. Operated for 24 hours, it uses less electricity than our largest room air conditioner uses in one hour. In our climate, cool marine air comes in through the Carquinez Strait on many evenings in the summer. On evenings when the "Delta Breeze" arrives just before sunset it is especially nice. In Palm Springs sometimes it is 100F at midnight, but here most nights you don't need air conditioning at all. And if you use the whole house fan, you can cool the whole house down really well before bed. We've needed a blanket most nights in summer because it drops down to 68F or below in here.