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- Aug 19, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Theconversation
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Just because the bill is low doesn’t mean energy is affordable (opens the original)
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One light bulb. That was what electrification brought to my grandmother Mag’s two-story farmhouse in Boydton, Virginia. No one wrote down the year the rural electric cooperative workers brought the wire to her house in the late 1940s. Newspapers celebrated rural electrification for making people’s lives better: People could run refrigerators, water pumps, dishwashers and, in some places, air conditioning. Mag’s family did not think one bulb in the first floor of their two-story house counted as
Why 78 degrees isn’t the right thermostat setting for everyone during a heat wave (opens the original)
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Across the U.S., it’s a hot summer, and electricity prices are high. Various public officials and corporate websites suggest people set their thermostats to 78 degrees Fahrenheit (25.6 degrees Celsius), or even 81 F (27.2 C), as a way to stay relatively cool without breaking the bank. But as someone who studies energy costs, I know from both personal and professional experience that it’s not that simple. The summer after my daughter’s first birthday, she began vomiting in the middle of the night
Why 78 degrees isn’t the right thermostat setting for everyone during a heat wave (opens the original)
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Across the U.S., it’s a hot summer, and electricity prices are high. Various public officials and corporate websites suggest people set their thermostats to 78 degrees Fahrenheit (25.6 degrees Celsius), or even 81 F (27.2 C), as a way to stay relatively cool without breaking the bank. But as someone who studies energy costs, I know from both personal and professional experience that it’s not that simple. The summer after my daughter’s first birthday, she began vomiting in the middle of the night
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