Too Hot

[Athan]

feh. you're all wimps 30 deg C is just perfect, and I'm about to go mountainbiking

Ugh, no, 20-25 is my 'comfort range'.

also, as said, -drink hot beverages (though this may sound strange, it really works)

This may make you feel cooler, as you raise your body temperature and thus the difference between you and your surroundings is less, but unless you combine it with some other method of losing heat you probably slightly raise your risk of heat stroke. It's the same principal as dictates giving alcohol to someone who is cold, which actually lowers their body temperature, so they feel warmer compared to their surroundings, but will just compound any potential hypothermia.

, -spray room temperature water on yourself (as in mist, not soaking wet. it evaporates, and you cool down via latent heat transfer or some other sciency magic),

Yes, assuming the water is cooler than your skin when you apply it heat will transfer from you to it. Then when it evaporates that heat goes away with it. Probably the best advice on here so far.

-try to keep heat out of your house through methods like what Tom described.

Unfortunately not all of us live in a house. I'm in a 1st (2nd to any merkins) floor flat, and thus have no control over the ground floor conditions. I'm convinced the neighbour down there turns their living room into a sauna though.

-Ath

 

[Whipped]

My chocolate biscuits and mini mars bars are melting. It's too hot

 

[Will]

This may make you feel cooler, as you raise your body temperature and thus the difference between you and your surroundings is less, but unless you combine it with some other method of losing heat you probably slightly raise your risk of heat stroke. It's the same principal as dictates giving alcohol to someone who is cold, which actually lowers their body temperature, so they feel warmer compared to their surroundings, but will just compound any potential hypothermia.

The theory of drinking hot drinks is that it encourages your body to sweat, thus dropping your tempterature.

Yes, assuming the water is cooler than your skin when you apply it heat will transfer from you to it. Then when it evaporates that heat goes away with it. Probably the best advice on here so far.

The warmer the water is, the quicker it evoporates, which cools you more than the heat transfer to the water, due to the latent heat of evaporation (energy required for the phase change, from what I remember of my degree).

 

[PLightstar]

Just went to the biscuit tin at work and its a massacre all the biscuits have melted into one giant choc mesh thing.

I got 2 fans on me and im still falling asleep from the heat worse yet is that I didn't take my car ro work so I got a long walk home in this heat without any decent chill out tracks on my MP3 player, and tomorrow I got to give out school uniform at this school we provide the uniform to and the school shop is right underneath the school boiler room, really not looking forward to tomorrow.

I got all my important work done this morning as I knew I would be unable to work under these conditions in the afternoon, we should do like the Europeans and dissapear for a few hours while it cools down then finish work.

 

[TdC]

(energy required for the phase change, from what I remember of my degree).

yeah, what Will said Athan. though tbh it's ages ago for me and I got confused at first cos I thought it was adiabatic thermodynamics but it isn't.

before I got to the brain-hurting stage I also remembered that you sweat more when it's humid but couldn't remember/work out why but it's something like dew-point messing with your body or somesuch.

 

[Scouse]

It was 36 degrees outside work today which is way out of my normal comfort range. At least I can console myself with the fact that the weather forecast for this weekend's camping in north Wales I've booked for 15 of us is dreary cold and raining

Went to India a couple of years ago and it was 37.5 degrees at 3.35am on the tarmac at Delhi airport. Got to 53+ during the day

 

[Scouse]

Oh. BTW:

Catsby should perhaps reconsider his views on the 'problem' of global warming, and whether or not humanity has had any effect on it whatsoever.

And come to the firm belief that the body of evidence, taken as a whole, is overwhelmingly in favour of it being a man-made problem.

 

[DaGaffer]

I'm in Cyprus at the moment seeing my folks and its about 35-40 degrees here. Of course, houses here are designed for it and I'm extremely thankful I'm not on public transport this week.

Unfortunately I got bit to fuck by some insect beastie last night (about 25 bites!) and I'm desperately trying not to scratch...

 

[phazey]

Think I might have to invest in a second bottle though

have you tried a camel pack? swear by em when i cycle (very off road through burmese paddy/buffalo fields) also play a good part when i play golf during the hotter months, and perhaps a day or two during "Thingyan" (burmese new year) filled up with iced beer....

 

[djpringle]

before I got to the brain-hurting stage I also remembered that you sweat more when it's humid but couldn't remember/work out why but it's something like dew-point messing with your body or somesuch.

iirc it's because the sweat can't evaporate due to the amount of humidity in the air, body still hot so more sweat

 

[PLightstar]

Oh. BTW:



And come to the firm belief that the body of evidence, taken as a whole, is overwhelmingly in favour of it being a man-made problem.

To be fair scientists are still not sure if it is us, many think that it could be a result of where the Earth is in the Solar system and how much of it is facing the sun and other stuff, won't bore you too much, but others think that because we only been here for a short time on this planet we don't know enough about the climate cycles of the planet to know for sure, im not saying Man is completely not to blame, all those cars/factories can't be doing any good.

 

[Aada]

Do what i do accept the fact every night your going to sweat like a fat bastard who just walked to the shop.

Can't open any windows because if i do i get huge mutant moths come in and they are fucking HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cry yourself to sleep because you have work in the morning and you know your going to be shattered for the rest of the day.

 

[gmloki]

I swear you could cook a canteen pastie in my shoes at the moment.

No Air Con, No Breeze, Some munter stole my desk fan. Life is not good

 

[Trem]

Humidity today is 26, its going to be 60 on Thursday

 

[Calaen]

ok for all you noobs out there,

1. buy a big bottle of water
2. Freeze it solid.
3. buy an electric fan
4. take frozen water out of freezer and place on plate/container.
5. Place above infront of fan.
6. turn fan on.

You now have a self made air conditioning set.

Yes I do have my uses!!!!!!!


P.S. Trem

lick my balls

 

[Trem]

P.S. Trem

lick my balls

Ewwww they are all warm and salty and ginger

 

[mank!]

how do you get the frozen water out of the bottle?

 

[Trem]

how do you get the frozen water out of the bottle?

Is it on a conveyor belt or not?

 

[Bodhi]

how do you get the frozen water out of the bottle?

Call it the son of a terrorist whore.

 

[Athan]

You don't get the water out of the bottle AIUI, it's just there in the path of the air blown from the fan so as to cool the air as it passes. The plate/container is just to catch any condensation that forms on the bottle.

Edit: although yes, it would possibly be more effective to have the naked block of ice. If you don't care about the bottle just cut it open .

-Ath

 

[Tom]

ok for all you noobs out there,

1. buy a big bottle of water
2. Freeze it solid.
3. buy an electric fan
4. take frozen water out of freezer and place on plate/container.
5. Place above infront of fan.
6. turn fan on.

You now have a self made air conditioning set.

Yes I do have my uses!!!!!!!


P.S. Trem

lick my balls

Completely wrong. To freeze the bottle you have to put it in a freezer. For the freezer to work, it consumes power. The waste product of which comes right out of the back of your freezer in the form of heat. Heat which warms your house up.

The freezer generates more heat cooling it's contents down than it removes from those contents.

Really, just go and buy a decent aircon unit, use a powerful drill and large diameter diamond-tipped hole cutter, put the outlet pipe through that hole to a vent on the exterior wall, shut all the windows bar one (downstairs), and enjoy a cool house.

 

[Trem]

Completely wrong. To freeze the bottle you have to put it in a freezer. For the freezer to work, it consumes power. The waste product of which comes right out of the back of your freezer in the form of heat. Heat which warms your house up.

Wrong!!

My freezer is outside*













*may be a lie.

 

[Calaen]

Completely wrong. To freeze the bottle you have to put it in a freezer. For the freezer to work, it consumes power. The waste product of which comes right out of the back of your freezer in the form of heat. Heat which warms your house up.

The freezer generates more heat cooling it's contents down than it removes from those contents.

Really, just go and buy a decent aircon unit, use a powerful drill and large diameter diamond-tipped hole cutter, put the outlet pipe through that hole to a vent on the exterior wall, shut all the windows bar one (downstairs), and enjoy a cool house.

im sorry do you only turn your freezer on when you need it? mine is on all day anyway

its a simple but effective way to get a little bit of cool air in your bedroom at night

 

[Trem]

im sorry do you only turn your freezer on when you need it? mine is on all day anyway

its a simple but effective way to get a little bit of cool air in your bedroom at night

Isn't it frosty enough in your bedroom anyway?

 

[Athan]

Stop assuming someone's house/flat is a uniform temperature and has uniform natural cooling.

In my case the freezer is in the kitchen (wow!) which is at the back of the flat on the side that is *always* much cooler as it only gets the sun in the morning. It also has a balcony door I can leave open. Thus it is always cooler than the lounge, which is at the front, gets the sun all afternoon and evening, has two people in it and 3 computers, not to mention two CRTs (yes, I know, I should replace them with LCDs, you paying?), and thus is MUCH hotter.

So, if I did this ice+fan trick it would improve matters. The heat generated by the feeezer would be moot as it'd never make it into the lounge due to the heat gradient.

Oh, and this is a rented flat so I can't go making wholesale modifications like fitting an aircon as you described.

-Ath, hot and testy

 

[Calaen]

thanks for the back up Ath

p.s. Trem fuck off I will show you frosty when you get you're sexy arse up to newcastle

 

[Trem]

thanks for the back up Ath

p.s. Trem fuck off I will show you frosty when you get you're sexy arse up to newcastle

Can I go on the end of the daisy chain please? Failing that can I sleep between you and Mrs Cal?

 

[Tom]

im sorry do you only turn your freezer on when you need it? mine is on all day anyway

its a simple but effective way to get a little bit of cool air in your bedroom at night

It may be on all day, but it will consume more power if you put something warm inside it. Therefore you're actually heating your house up, along with yourself.

You'd be cooler if you shut all the curtains and turned everything off. Simple physics.

 

[Tom]

So, if I did this ice+fan trick it would improve matters. The heat generated by the feeezer would be moot as it'd never make it into the lounge due to the heat gradient.

:touch:

 

[Trem]

Aha! But what if I turned the air con unit off? Or the fan?




Must....annoy....Tom......today.