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.
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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.