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House too hot? Energy bill already too high? This UK professor says smearing yogurt on your windows can cool your home (www.yahoo.com)

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Well... it beats eating it, I suppose!

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[–] Zubgub@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

For those who might not know, the towel, bucket of water, and fan method works via evaporative cooling.

However, it does not work well in higher humidity, and may not even seem to work at all since it would increase the humidity even further. I'm guessing most of Europe is too humid for this to work and is why it usually doesn't come up in these kinds of articles.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

Yeah this wouldn't work on the UK, the reason the great hits garde here is because of how humid it is. It becomes almost rainforest like.