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"Dave Liquorice" wrote:

On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 22:46:25 +0000, Simon Gardner wrote:

Ceiling fans on slow speed are near enough totaly silent and make
rooms very comfortable

No they don't.

Well they do in Thailand and Malaysia

I'm sure they don't there either.

, BTDTGTTS... Cheap accomodation
doesn't run to aircon, it was unbearable inside your without the
ceiling fan on.

It's unbearable inside without the aircon on.

They don't cool and are totally inadequate for most of the
summer.

Whilst they don't cool the air they make it move,

That's right. No bloody use at all.

this movement keeps
you cool naturally.

It keeps you very slightly less hot. It certainly deson't keep you cool.
For that you need aircon.

There is a big difference between a slow 4'
ceiling fan and an ordinary stand or table fan. The ceiling fan sets
up a gentle (or not so gentle on high...) whole room circulation, the
table fan just blows a little bit of air about.

Even this years summer was not as hot as the above places and the
humidity was nothing like it either.

And yet still far too unpleasant for a ceiling fan to be any use at all.