{"id":2453582,"date":"2020-01-22T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/old-powerhouse-building-in-aspen-needs-to-cool-it\/"},"modified":"2020-01-23T07:54:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T14:54:31","slug":"old-powerhouse-building-in-aspen-needs-to-cool-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/old-powerhouse-building-in-aspen-needs-to-cool-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Old powerhouse building in Aspen needs to cool it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Walking by the old powerhouse building that Liz (Chapman, environmental health specialist, city of Aspen) works in, I\u2019ve noticed that second-story windows are open 24\/7, all winter long. Talking to Liz today about what of waste of energy that is, she said it\u2019s because if they are not open then it\u2019s 80 degrees in the second floor. That\u2019s a problem. Eighty-degree air is an asset in the winter and shouldn\u2019t be dumped outside; after all, there is a climate emergency going on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">She mentioned numerous HVAC experts have been consulted and there doesn\u2019t seem to be an answer. You need to move that hot air down to the cold first floor. You could cut a 1- or 2-foot diameter hole between the floors at the east end of the big room upstairs and install a vertical tube from near the ceiling of the second floor, have it go down to the floor on the ground floor and then install a fan in it. Then you could keep the second-floor windows closed all winter long. Mrs. Polar Bear would offer thanks if she could talk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Tom Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/old-powerhouse-building-in-aspen-needs-to-cool-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking by the old powerhouse building that Liz (Chapman, environmental health specialist, city of Aspen) works in, I\u2019ve noticed that second-story windows are open 24\/7, all winter long. Talking to Liz today about what of waste of energy that is, she said it\u2019s because if they are not open then it\u2019s 80 degrees in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2453582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 19:39:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453603,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453582\/revisions\/2453603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}