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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)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Well... it beats eating it, I suppose!

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[–] 20 points 3 months ago* (8 children)

Coming from Australia where not single house I’d ever been to had air conditioning.

This is fucking hilarious.

Mate, worse comes to worst get a bucket, to damp a towel, and a tiny fan.

Jesus Christ. Don’t spread fuckin yogurt on your windows you dumb cunts.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (3 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Yeah because Queensland Australia isn’t humid. I’m either talking to bots or complete morons who have never felt cold walking out of a shower on a hot day.

    London or the UK is far from what you call humid.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    Humidity is a measurement of water in the air. The UK is famously a very rainy country. This is what makes it humid over here. When you sweat, even in just the mid-high twenties, it just doesn't evaporate, it's got nowhere to go because they're already too much water in the air for it to be a quick process. And it's the evaporation of sweat that wicks away heat from us and cool us down, without that you just stay hot with liquid on your skin that's also getting hotter. This is what I'm describing and why a less humid country in the 40s has the possibility to feel more bearable than the UK in the 30s

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Don't know where you are, but I'm in Melbourne, and we have plenty of AC for cooling. What we are lacking though is a proper summer where it's worth turning that on.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Yes, and now on google maps, I can see that a lot of houses have solar panels. It was not the case when I grew up in Queensland 40+ degree heat, in a house made of plywood and fly screens in Nerang and the coolest place around was Pac Fair.

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