We’re presently obeying instructions given to us via our televisual receiving device. And that would be? Why hunkering down - again - in
the cupboard under the stairs as temperatures may ‘surge’ into the low thirties centigrade thus heralding the end of times for the elderly.
Whilst hunkered here, frantically rubbing on sun screen just in
case the door bell rings, I had a thought regards warm nights.
As air conditioning isn’t a thing here, keeping cool of a night is pretty much down to noisy fans and that sowed the seeds of an idea.
If you’re of an age,
just cast your mind back to cold nights and our old stone hot water bottles. Then technology advanced and along came the rubber jobbies. Then,many years later, came the magic of lekky blankets. So here’s my thought:
We all know how technology is advancing so dramatically year by year - nay, day by day so why haven’t any of those wondrous tech folk come up - with global warming being relentlessly
pushed - come up with a lekky blanked with, rather than the standard three warming settings, one with six settings? Yup, three winter clicks from warm to warmer and very warm and three sweaty summer cooling clicks from cool
to cooler to cold. A fortune to be made with the help of the scary media eh? Say wot now? Lekky only makes stuff warm? I guess you haven’t got a refrigerator yet then.
Addendumadodad; If y’all get an idea, always Giggle it before typing. Not quite my ‘simple’ all in one idea but... Try it, just Giggle electric cooling blanket and browse away. Oh, and do it in the shade, okay?
Quote; Woody Allen.
“I was a nervous child, I was a bed-wetter. I used to sleep with an electric blanket and I was constantly electrocuting myself.”
3 comments:
I have one of those stone bottles, one of those with a knob on the top so when you stand it in the bed the warmth is spread all over. The bakelite stopper has sprung a leak but I haven't thrown it out as I may repair it somehow. Then I had an idea, they're evidently contagious, how about shoveling ice cubes in it? If it gets any warmer I might give it a go.
Andy5759,
Now that’s a good idea. Sad to say the my childhood stone bottle is long gone.
I guess you remember the first childhood thing to do upon waking in the winter back in the day? Yup, scratch your name in the ice. That would be the ice on the inside of your bedroom window...
I have worked with electronic stuff cooled by electric current.
Search for Peltier effect.
The benefit was it needed zero moving parts.
Now we have heat pipes to remove heat from a warm surface and dump it on a cooler surface. No pumps needed.
A damp cloth on your skin will cool you as the water evaporates - latent heat of evaporation. Same idea as using a porous clay water jar to keep water inside cool by having some water on the outside of the jar evaporate. It is what sweating, or perspiration if you are Royalty, does. No wonder Prince Andrew overheated.
Maybe having the draught of warm air through a partially opened sash window pass over a tray of water would cool the room. It works in Middle East countries. Of course it depends on air not being too humid.
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