Sony's mini air conditioner can fit in your pocket

Re:Sony's mini air conditioner can fit in your pocket by UncleEntity on Sunday July 28, 2019 @11:29AM (#20548016)

> Hundreds of people across the country die from heatstrokes every month in the summer, and wearing less clothing won't keep you alive.

Drinking water will though...

(said as someone who's spent plenty of time outside in summer desert heat without AC and hasn't died yet)

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Re:Sony's mini air conditioner can fit in your pocket by striking on Sunday July 28, 2019 @11:40AM (#20548071)

The other factor to preventing heat stroke is humidity. Dry heat can be okay, but if it's also too humid, you can't sweat the heat off. (this is a slight oversimplification) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Wet-bulb_...

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Re:Sony's mini air conditioner can fit in your pocket by GordonS on Sunday July 28, 2019 @05:58PM (#20550047)

If we take "extremely hot" as an example (let's say 40C), I actually find dry heat to be more unbearable than humid heat. I don't think I have any weird issues around sweating, and logically what you say makes a kind of sense, so I wonder why that might be?

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