Re:New ‘mirror’ fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C
by louthy on Friday July 09, 2021 @05:59AM
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Evaporated sweat only cools the body if it leaves the area where the body is. So presumably they would be radiating warm air away from them.
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Re:New ‘mirror’ fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C
by contravariant on Friday July 09, 2021 @06:08AM
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Not necessarily, they might just be radiating humid air. It's the evaporation itself that leads to the cooling.
Re:New ‘mirror’ fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C
by gruez on Friday July 09, 2021 @08:48AM
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But the humid air makes it harder for people around you to cool evaporatively (eg. sweating)
Re:New ‘mirror’ fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C
by contravariant on Friday July 09, 2021 @09:47AM
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Well yes, you must (irreversibly) increase entropy somehow. The air itself won't be warmer though.
Re:New ‘mirror’ fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C
by StrictDabbler on Friday July 09, 2021 @10:42AM
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This is why we have wet and dry bulb temperatures.
Your intuition about temperature is focused on the dry-bulb temperature that a simple probe gives you.
A wet-bulb is literally a probe with a wet cloth or tissue around it.
As the humidity in the air increases the wet-bulb temperature approaches the dry bulb temperature.
This is absolutely “warming”. The latent heat of the air increases. The sensible heat remains the same.
Re:New ‘mirror’ fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C
by Retric on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:16AM
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Without the jacket the person will emit the same heat. The jacket fans do generate a trivial amount of heat, but it’s likely less than a desktop fan.