As the sensible heat load is reduced for a building, primarily through better windows, more insulation, and air distribution ducts inside conditioned space, the latent load increases in proportion to the total load to the point that conventional cooling systems have difficulty keeping
humidity levels within comfortable and healthy limits3.
Not exact matches
When the air indoors reached the desired
level of
humidity, it saves power by not running while the
humidity level is
within the desired range.
A TSB - funded post-occupancy evaluation of the Wimbish passive house development for Hastoe Housing found that occupants were happy with air quality, «occupied» CO2
levels were generally around or below 1000 ppm, and
humidity was «
within normal limits» (although marginally low in some houses at the end of each winter).5
Measurement of CO2 concentration is always problematic; the «Standard Dry Air» SDA basis of measurement and comparison is at standard temperature and pressure which is a non-existent parameter; and as we are seeing, CO2 is not a well - mixed gas at all and will be defined by, amongst other variables, SH, or absolute
humidity; SH can vary from 0 to 5 % by volume of atmosphere; as the SH increases, the absolute amount of other gases, including CO2, decreases; to say therefore that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have remained stable and not been above 280ppm over the last 650my is fanciful; even if you assume past CO2
levels have not got above 280ppm the range of variation
within that limit has been greater than the current increase;
Anyway, our paper concluded by suggesting that, in view of the extreme significance of upper -
level humidity to the climate change story, the international radiosonde data on upper -
level humidity should not be «written off» without a serious attempt at abstracting the best possible
humidity signal from
within the noise of instrumental and operational changes at each of the relevant radiosonde stations.
Without a provincial air quality standard, there is no way of knowing whether the air
within the property has been adequately remediated for such problems as leaky building envelopes, illegal grow - op activities or high
levels of continued
humidity that produce mould, says CREB.
But if these are the typical dryer found here in the USA, then the moisture is expelled through the exhaust vent; failure to properly vent these to the outside would lead to high moisture /
humidity levels in the air
within the unit - one of the things that could lead to mold developing.