Room temperature change from 25ºC to 20ºC As a member of the inter-society standards commission St-Incent I have been asked to take the bearings of the structural biology community regarding a proposal to lower the universally understood room temperature from 25ºC (77º Fahrenheit) to 20ºC (68º Fahrenheit). Obvious advantages would be less heating necessary for experiments at this standard temperature. Given that laboratories nowadays are not commonly heated to this high temperature anyway, it does appear to make sense.
Members of tropical and subtropical countries have already expressed opposition to the proposal, because they have to reach room temperature by cooling rather than heating, so for them the proposal would mean more CO2 emissions, not less. Please express opinions to this list today, so that I have time to collate them before the local deadline of 28 December. Mark J van Raaij Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas, lab 20B Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC calle Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid, Spain ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
