{"id":217175,"date":"2025-07-04T06:13:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/what-is-the-optimal-setting-for-your-air-conditioner-we-asked-a-physics-professor"},"modified":"2025-07-04T06:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:13:20","slug":"what-is-the-optimal-setting-for-your-air-conditioner-we-asked-a-physics-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/what-is-the-optimal-setting-for-your-air-conditioner-we-asked-a-physics-professor","title":{"rendered":"What is the optimal setting for your air conditioner? We asked a physics professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-is-the-optimal-setting-for-your-air-conditioner-we-asked-a-physics-professor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ahh, summer, a time of vacations at the beach or mountains\u2014and sky-high electricity bills as your air conditioner labors against the heat and humidity.<\/p>\n<p>But what is the optimal temperature setting for your air conditioner?<\/p>\n<p>And how does your body adapt to heat?<\/p>\n<p>Northeastern University\u2019s Stefan Kautsch, a teaching professor in physics, explains <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/heat+transfer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heat transfer<\/a> and how the concepts he discusses in the classroom can also help humans survive sweltering temperatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahh, summer, a time of vacations at the beach or mountains\u2014and sky-high electricity bills as your air conditioner labors against the heat and humidity. But what is the optimal temperature setting for your air conditioner? And how does your body adapt to heat? Northeastern University\u2019s Stefan Kautsch, a teaching professor in physics, explains heat transfer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}