It's like resetting a thermostat.

Doctor said it was bad for my thermostat.

I mean, come on, I'm not going to turn down my thermostat.

And I use a heat mat to sit the bath on and a thermostat to regulate it.

Gas became artificially cheap, consumers seldom bothered to turn the thermostat down, and producers stopped investing. As a result Argentina, once a thriving gas exporter, had to seek imports to overcome domestic shortages.

And by the way, the assumption that we can safely control the Earth's awesomely complex climate system as if it had a thermostat, making the planet not too hot, not too cold, but just right sort of Goldilocks style this is pure fantasy, and it's not coming from the climate scientists.

New Web based platforms allow ordinary people without money or special skills to share their cars, spare bedrooms, or even do it yourself tools, thus challenging the dominance of global corporations. The Internet of Things is connecting simple household items like a thermostat to the Web, helping owners to save money and even reduce their carbon emissions.