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Suck the air out. Pushing air in with fans creates a higher pressure zone in the house. You won't move as much air. On the upper floors where it's warmer suck the air out of what windows you have, but push the air in at the lower windows. Personally my house doesn't have any windows, this is Lemmy we use Linux here.
Peak lemmy here.
I have been trying to slip in Linux references when I can. I swear 25% of our user base is Linux SysAdmins.
That's impossible, as it would mean 25% of our user base is also furry. Wait a second...
computer case airflow!
I suppose that is an accurate comparison.
Fuck! Exactly the idea that hatched in my head.
So lower front fans are more efficient to suck in cold air than higher ones, while the exhaust fan in the back is higher and more efficient for moving hot air away from the case as hot air rises (ryzens).
But doesn't it better to keep your house at positive pressure to keep the dust out?
this is only effective if the inlet is well filtered, otherwise you will just be blowing outside dust in anyway
In theory, but by lowering the effectiveness of the fan. You could put outward facing fans in each window and a furnace dust filter on the window sucking the air inward.
Example blowing air into a balloon. The air goes into the balloon, because the balloon can expand. If you had a balloon as a house, and the fan was your mouth, your house shouldn't expand. The air has nowhere to go, so it doesn't blow in very effectively.
I personally kept most of my house cool by running a single window AC that has a filter and a single fan. The AC blows in at the lower levels of the shaded side of the house. The fan sucks out the hot air from the second floor One ~8,000btu AC will keep the house comfortable until it hits ~97f.
Moving air out of a house is more about sucking the air out than pushing the air in. As long as their is a flow to it.
My house has so many windows. I'm such a nub.