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What's the craziest cooling methods at the moment? (feddit.uk)

submitted 6 days ago by Cyber@feddit.uk to c/askuk@feddit.uk

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We're not setup for hot weather, so we resort to all kinds of things to keep us and our homes cool.

Apart from ordering fans from Amazon, what else have you been doing to keep cool?

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[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ah. I see what you’re saying. You’re saying the heat from the hot water compensates for the increase in sweating.

I suppose it’s worthwhile investigating the relationship between the energy in the water and the energy lost through sweating. And indeed some people have studied that:

“Yes, the hot drink is hotter than your body temperature, so you are adding heat to the body, but the amount that you increase your sweating by—if that can all evaporate—more than compensates for the the added heat to the body from the fluid.”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-hot-drink-on-a-hot-day-can-cool-you-down-1338875/

[–] fozid@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago

Interesting 👍 thanks for the link. So it does work, just only in very specific situations.