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Best New Car Deals With ceiling fans, "you can go from breeze to bluster to benign zephyr," we wrote in our July 1982 report on summer cooling. "Even the most profligate model," we noted, "would cost only pennies a day to run."
Ceiling fans haven’t changed much over the past 26 years. (The top fan shown is from 1982; the bottom one, from our July 2008 story on ceiling fans.) Although they cost slightly more to run today than they did during the early part of the Reagan era, ceiling fans can decrease energy consumption and save you money, but only if you use your air conditioner less or set it to a warmer temperature and rely on the cooling breeze from the fan. (See our latest report on and review of air conditioners, and learn more ways to keep cool this summer.)
"A ceiling fan can conjure up an exotic feeling even in a raised ranch in the suburbs," we wrote in the 1982 article. If a virtual experience isn’t enough, you can put the money you’ve saved toward a real getaway. Read our Ratings-based reports on airlines and hotels.
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