- keep all windows open at night
- close everything during daytime
- stay inside
“It’s the apocalypse, fuck work” :D
Another problem if you have the car parked for a while, it quickly becomes an oven, especially if it has dark colors or even black (bad idea in the South and not for racial reasons). The usual thing is to open the doors and wait a while before entering, but there is a much faster and more efficient solution: Opening the passenger window and then repetitively opening and closing the driver’s door, this quickly pumps the accumulated warm air out of the car.
Also a good idea is a Lambskin cover for the steering wheel, this avoids acquiring burns on the hands when touched. With this the steering wheel never gets hot.
Very hot showers are more efficient against the sensation of heat than cold showers. Although cold showers refresh at the moment, when you leave you feel even hotter. A hot shower, especially after drying only superficially, leaves a feeling of freshness for quite some time.
I had never thought of opening and closing doors to pump warm air out of a car !
There are no much who know this, but it’s the fastest methode. The hot air in the car are stored in the higher part and only moved very slowly out if you only open the doors, more if there is no wind. Applied Physics.
Naturally, it is always advisable to park in the shade, but if possible, not under a tree, there are also birds, searching the shade.
At home I use evaporative air cooler, much cheaper than air conditioner, much fewer need of electricity (same as a normal ventilator 50-80W), transportable. https://www.newair.com/blogs/learn/what-are-evaporative-coolers
Reminder, unless you use in a dry area, these don’t help much, and can even make things hotter. Stay away if you live in a humid, tropical area.
I am from South Spain and these coolers are working well. Putting these near a slight open Window or using water with ice cubes in the deposit, they can cool down more than 10-15 ºC. Not as efficient than a air conditioner, but enough for a pleasant temperature and much cheaper, depending of the tall of the cooler between ~€50-200 apart of the few energy consume (the one of the fan and a little waterpump, mostly driven by the same fan with a fan belt. Very simple mechanic.
Cool, does it work well?
Why is this posted to technology?
because i don’t have a better sublemmy with equally high user subscriptions
Open windows at night and directly after rain. Once the cool air is trapped, don’t open any windows or doors for any extended period of time.
Here are some tips, then, from my side, since I am from India.
- Eat a bowl of curd/yogurt twice a day, both meals. Yes, during night as well.
- Try adjusting yourself to just using fans in summers and only use the cooler or AC during bedtime. Exceptions are when the temperatures become over 43C, use AC for 30 minutes twice during daytime, if your room is on the outside part of a house or apartment.
- Just like curd, try having more dairy or other non-dairy coolant foods throughout the day, anything with electrolytes works too.
I know it might sound silly, but going to sauna regularly might help. Even though I had above 30 degress in the room I didn’t feel it much. The way I see it, the body tolerance for heat has increased thanks to high temperatures in sauna.
The fun stuf is that It works both ways - heat resistance works thanks to sauna and cold resistance works thanks to cold water bathing.
