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Re:New ‘mirror’ fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C by contravariant on Friday July 09, 2021 @06:08AM (#27782161)
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 (#27783147)
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 (#27783600)
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 (#27784163)
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 (#27784534)
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.
Re:New ‘mirror’ fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C by gmadsen on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:03AM (#27784405)
ventilation is a lot cheaper than AC though
Re:New ‘mirror’ fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C by Razengan on Friday July 09, 2021 @07:13AM (#27782493)
Hey as long as I feel cool and look cool I don’t care what it does.