In West Texas, temperature increases are especially unmistakable when Spring turns to Summer. The decrease in comfort and increase in utility rates is enough to make you hot under the collar both literally and figuratively. On top of that, nobody seems to be coming forward to lower our energy prices. While we wait for this to happen, there are common sense measures we can take to get more comfortable and save money. Ultimately, beating the heat consists of cooling yourself off, minimizing your air conditioner's (AC) load, and improving AC efficiency:
Cool yourself off
Before cooling the air, why not cool yourself down first? Done right, there will be times you can avoid turning the air conditioner on. You can't save better than that! When astronauts walked the moon, their spacesuits kept their bodies cool even when surface temperatures reached 250o F.