'Super Cool Biz' campaign officially kicks-off

[Wage Slave]

As an aside, I read somewhere that setting your aircon in the "remove humidity mode" consumes quite a lot of power, to the extent that it is apparently advised to switch it to regular cooling mode.

Is this true, and, if so, why?

I don't know if it's true or not. Reading up quickly, I see that dehumidify mode causes the compressor to cycle more frequently than in cooling mode. Perhaps high surge current at repeated start up may negatively affect economy to the point you would be better off just using it in cooling mode and be done with it?

Dehumidify mode is recommended when you are happy with the temperature but just need the humidity pulled down to be comfortable. It should use less power than full on cooling because the compressor doesn't need to run in long bursts.

[Coligny]

As an aside, I read somewhere that setting your aircon in the "remove humidity mode" consumes quite a lot of power, to the extent that it is apparently advised to switch it to regular cooling mode.

Is this true, and, if so, why?

Humidity removal use the compressor but not for cooling purpose (while still being a side effect) Might be possible to consider it as the aircon idle / base power use... Hot air hitting cooled surface/fins trigger water condensation -> removal of humidity

[Wage Slave]

The other thing is that the fan speed is reduced allowing the air to linger longer on the cool fins and so shed more water.

If the room temperature is (say) 28 but it still feels uncomfortable then perhaps it is worth running the aircon in dehumidify rather than cooling mode. We do a few times a year in the early and late summer. Whether it really saves much power I wouldn't like to say. It might well use more than cooling mode that isn't kicking in properly but the room is more comfortable.

[Coligny]

The other thing is that the fan speed is reduced allowing the air to linger longer on the cool fins and so shed more water.

Not sure if it's slower or faster, depend on the humidity level, I often had an icing issue with a window aircon (600W model 8 tatamis) the inside radiator gets completely clogged with snow cutting all air circulation. The condensed water don't drip fast enough or there is not enough to trigger a proper drain and stay on the fins and freeze...

[Wage Slave]

The other thing is that the fan speed is reduced allowing the air to linger longer on the cool fins and so shed more water.

Not sure if it's slower or faster, depend on the humidity level, I often had an icing issue with a window aircon (600W model 8 tatamis) the inside radiator gets completely clogged with snow cutting all air circulation. The condensed water don't drip fast enough or there is not enough to trigger a proper drain and stay on the fins and freeze...

600W sounds a bit underpowered for 8 tatamis? That might be causing the problem - compressor working too hard on too small an evaporator, fins too cold, ice forms, airflow restricted, vicious circle starts.

[Coligny]

...Made in China...

[Taro Toporific]

Tokyo Reporter (@tokyoreporter)'s twitter
Super Cool Biz begins on Sat... http://t.co/KrXCmDyIWL ... But an early start in Shinjuku. pic.twitter.com/Gee8dc5A04

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[wuchan]

73f = 23c

28c = 82.4f

barbarians know nothing....

[matsuki]

73f = 23c

28c = 82.4f

barbarians know nothing....

See, but that's gaijin productivity...Japanese productivity is independently shitty regardless of temperature.

[Wage Slave]

That graph uses the old incomplete axis trick. At 28 degrees C performance falls 5% from the maximum, which counts, but isn't dramatic.

I had a quick look at the paper it is based on. It was work done in Helsinki - Isn't it reasonable to suspect that Finnish workers are less unaccustomed to working in temperatures over 24 degrees? The average high there in July is 19 degrees. In February it is -1. Don't even ask about the lows.

The paper also doesn't say anything about dress. Given that Japanese people are more accustomed to higher temperatures - try working in a public school - and that dress regulations have been relaxed I venture that 28 degrees with reasonable humidity probably affects productivity by no more than a couple of percent at most.

And, there is serious shortage of power in Japan at present as 40% or so of capacity is off line. So, I think it makes sense and makes even more sense at the moment.

[Coligny]

And, there is serious shortage of power in Japan at present as 40% or so of capacity is off line.

And not a single blackout despite record high summer temp...

[matsuki]

And, there is serious shortage of power in Japan at present as 40% or so of capacity is off line.

And not a single blackout despite record high summer temp...

The most efficient AC in the world and everyone is too tight to use it...worthless

[Hijinx]

The paper also doesn't say anything about dress. Given that Japanese people are more accustomed to higher temperatures - try working in a public school - and that dress regulations have been relaxed I venture that 28 degrees with reasonable humidity probably affects productivity by no more than a couple of percent at most.

And, there is serious shortage of power in Japan at present as 40% or so of capacity is off line. So, I think it makes sense and makes even more sense at the moment.

Eff that! I keep my office at 23 all summer, and I'm still highly unproductive. 28? I would go into negative productivity.

[wuchan]

73f = 23c

28c = 82.4f

barbarians know nothing....

See, but that's gaijin productivity...Japanese productivity is independently shitty regardless of temperature.

An unforseen complication....

That graph uses the old incomplete axis trick. At 28 degrees C performance falls 5% from the maximum, which counts, but isn't dramatic.

I had a quick look at the paper it is based on. It was work done in Helsinki - Isn't it reasonable to suspect that Finnish workers are less unaccustomed to working in temperatures over 24 degrees? The average high there in July is 19 degrees. In February it is -1. Don't even ask about the lows.

The paper also doesn't say anything about dress. Given that Japanese people are more accustomed to higher temperatures - try working in a public school - and that dress regulations have been relaxed I venture that 28 degrees with reasonable humidity probably affects productivity by no more than a couple of percent at most.

And, there is serious shortage of power in Japan at present as 40% or so of capacity is off line. So, I think it makes sense and makes even more sense at the moment.

The 40% shortage can easily be taken care of by cutting the lights like the week after the big quake and totally banning pachinko. Turning off airconditioners in unused corners of office buildings actually uses more energy than keeping the building at 23c all year because the ones still on have to work harder to keep the temp no matter what they are set at.

[Hijinx]

The 40% shortage can easily be taken care of by cutting the lights like the week after the big quake and totally banning pachinko. Turning off airconditioners in unused corners of office buildings actually uses more energy than keeping the building at 23c all year because the ones still on have to work harder to keep the temp no matter what they are set at.

I agree. It's one of these things where it's all up to the people while industry does nothing.

I just read something that said that in California, personal water use accounts for only 4%. So I'll flush my toilet as many times as I feel, thank you. And that by abstaining from eating one pound of meat is the equivalent of not showering for six months.

[Coligny]

And that by abstaining from eating one pound of meat is the equivalent of not showering for six months.

Hey, I could live there !
I'll take your meat ration...

[Samurai_Jerk]

That graph uses the old incomplete axis trick. At 28 degrees C performance falls 5% from the maximum, which counts, but isn't dramatic.

I had a quick look at the paper it is based on. It was work done in Helsinki - Isn't it reasonable to suspect that Finnish workers are less unaccustomed to working in temperatures over 24 degrees? The average high there in July is 19 degrees. In February it is -1. Don't even ask about the lows.

The paper also doesn't say anything about dress. Given that Japanese people are more accustomed to higher temperatures - try working in a public school - and that dress regulations have been relaxed I venture that 28 degrees with reasonable humidity probably affects productivity by no more than a couple of percent at most.

And, there is serious shortage of power in Japan at present as 40% or so of capacity is off line. So, I think it makes sense and makes even more sense at the moment.

I'm too lazy to Google it but I read an article a year or two ago that stated they've seen productivity fall at companies that implement Cool Biz and that a lot companies end up using more energy because so many employees buy desk fans to try to keep cool. Even without Cool Biz Japanese offices are too hot and Japanese women, attention whores that they are, love to bitch and moan about the cold all summer long. We have to fight at my office to keep the AC at 25 degrees even though 90% of team thinks it's too hot and would rather keep it at 23. One of the girls keeps an electric heat pad on her seat and covers up with an electric blanket when she's at her desk and repeatedly complains to the bosses. I really don't think women belong in the workplace unless it's the sex industry.

[Wage Slave]

I'm too lazy to Google it but I read an article a year or two ago that stated they've seen productivity fall at companies that implement Cool Biz and that a lot companies end up using more energy because so many employees buy desk fans to try to keep cool. Even without Cool Biz Japanese offices are too hot and Japanese women, attention whores that they are, love to bitch and moan about the cold all summer long. We have to fight at my office to keep the AC at 25 degrees even though 90% of team thinks it's too hot and would rather keep it at 23. One of the girls keeps an electric heat pad on her seat and covers up with an electric blanket when she's at her desk and repeatedly complains to the bosses. I really don't think women belong in the workplace unless it's the sex industry.

Well that's it then. There is no way anyone can match that level of intellectual rigour and evidence based argument.

[IparryU]

That graph uses the old incomplete axis trick. At 28 degrees C performance falls 5% from the maximum, which counts, but isn't dramatic.

I had a quick look at the paper it is based on. It was work done in Helsinki - Isn't it reasonable to suspect that Finnish workers are less unaccustomed to working in temperatures over 24 degrees? The average high there in July is 19 degrees. In February it is -1. Don't even ask about the lows.

The paper also doesn't say anything about dress. Given that Japanese people are more accustomed to higher temperatures - try working in a public school - and that dress regulations have been relaxed I venture that 28 degrees with reasonable humidity probably affects productivity by no more than a couple of percent at most.

And, there is serious shortage of power in Japan at present as 40% or so of capacity is off line. So, I think it makes sense and makes even more sense at the moment.

I'm too lazy to Google it but I read an article a year or two ago that stated they've seen productivity fall at companies that implement Cool Biz and that a lot companies end up using more energy because so many employees buy desk fans to try to keep cool. Even without Cool Biz Japanese offices are too hot and Japanese women, attention whores that they are, love to bitch and moan about the cold all summer long. We have to fight at my office to keep the AC at 25 degrees even though 90% of team thinks it's too hot and would rather keep it at 23. One of the girls keeps an electric heat pad on her seat and covers up with an electric blanket when she's at her desk and repeatedly complains to the bosses. I really don't think women belong in the workplace unless it's the sex industry.

Thats when you get the rest of the ladies in the office that dont dress like they are going clubbing or work at a kabakura to bitch them out. Make a decent scene about dressing warmer and don't waste the electricity, throw in some stats about the majority of the office want it cooler and using electric pads and blankets is going to impose nuclear usage again... Blah blah blah

Get a side agreement with the management to not punish this girls doing the good deed and all is good.

Then again, if all the birds in your office are garu... You are SOL.

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[Hijinx]

. I really don't think women belong in the workplace unless it's the sex industry.

That's like the most awsomeness thing I've ever read outside my own post, of course.

[Hijinx]

I mean it's hot and all, and sweaty balls do add to one's discomfort, but.....

35 year-old-man arrested for exposing himself to schoolgirls
Japan Today -- Jun 01
http://newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/107882.php

Police in Tokyo said Saturday that a 35-year-old man has been arrested after he was caught exposing himself in front of a young middle school-aged girl on a roadside in Edogawa Ward.

According to police, Akira Imazu, of Sumida Ward and an employee in the food and drink services industry, was charged with public indecency. TV Asahi reported that at around 8 a.m. on May 21, Imazu exposed himself in front of a young girl riding her bicycle to school.

Police said Imazu had cut a hole in the crotch of his pants before going out.

[Russell]

I really don't think women belong in the workplace unless it's the sex industry.

Men being outperformed by women in workplace

[IparryU]

I really don't think women belong in the workplace unless it's the sex industry.

Men being outperformed by women in workplace

nice cum back.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I really don't think women belong in the workplace unless it's the sex industry.

Men being outperformed by women in workplace

Men's performance is down because they have to deal with these cunts at the office.

[yanpa]

I really don't think women belong in the workplace unless it's the sex industry.

Men being outperformed by women in workplace

Men's performance is down because they have to deal with these cunts at the office.

damn SJ, you're such a comedian.

you are joking, aren't you?

[wagyl]

I really don't think women belong in the workplace unless it's the sex industry.

Men being outperformed by women in workplace

Men's performance is down because they have to deal with these cunts at the office.

damn SJ, you're such a comedian.

you are joking, aren't you?

Sometimes it is better to assume the best and not confirm.

[Coligny]

Sometimes it is better to assume the best and not confirm.

Yet you are still posting (chinese saying and all...)

[Russell]

Beat the summer heat by walking

Alternately walking fast and then more slowly is a good way to beat the summer heat, according to a university professor.

Prof. Hiroshi Nose of Graduate School of Medicine, Shinshu University, who devised this method of coping with the grueling summer, said that overall health should improve one week after starting the exercise and a loss of weight may be noticeable after two weeks.

However, before the summer heat wave rolls into town, it would be a good idea to build up a strong body to endure temperature changes before heading out into the street. Nose’s method has been well-received as it can be quickly and easily adopted.

He recommends five sets of three-minute walks, first fast and then more slowly, for a 30-minute total, at least four times a week. This should improve a person’s physical strength, he said.

Heatstroke occurs when body fails to properly release heat through such means as sweating and widening of blood vessels in the skin.

Nose said milk should be drunk right after the exercise as it improves liver function, which increases the volume of blood. In the case of a person older than 60, the effect can be seen in about eight weeks, he said.

“If a liver is compared to a car engine, blood is the radiator. With more blood, vessels in the skin widen more easily, enhancing functions that control body temperature,” the professor said.

About 900 elderly people practiced the walking method at the request of Jukunen Taiikudaigaku Research Center (Sport science university research center for senior citizens), a nonprofit organization in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture. Nose serves as vice president.

Participants visit local facilities once a month and receive guidance from instructors based on the data of pedometers that also calculate how many calories have been expended.

Ai Hashiba, 72, who has used this exercise method for nine years, makes a habit of drinking milk afterward. She said she did not suffer much from the summer heat. “I exercise by walking for 30 minutes every other day,” Hashiba said.

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It's so fortunate that those elderly citizens do their walking under expert guidance. Imagine if they would exercise in the wrong way. Like drinking a beer afterwards instead of milk...

[Coligny]

Was he recently laid of from a stem cell research lab ?

[Taro Toporific]

Super Cool Biz!

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