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Continuing… This is why as the article mentions a fan alone can be worse than doing nothing in sufficiently hot and dry air. People only sweat so fast so at s
by Retric 2y ago
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This is why as the article mentions a fan alone can be worse than doing nothing in sufficiently hot and dry air. People only sweat so fast so at some point without supplemental moisture the fan acts like a convection oven simply warming people faster. This can be offset by adding supplemental moisture via a 'evaporative vests' or mister the maximum temperature increases.
This and other reasons mean health organizations are concerned with finding and communicating the maximum temperature fans are still useful.
- quantadev 2y agoIf you think about it, fan use during super high heats could lead to fatalities, because people using them could possibly be so hot, they're not even able to realize the moving of hot air over them is actually heating them up more. Anyway, like I said the only REAL solution is evaporative effects, if there's no AC to be had.