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I have wondered if this concept can be applied to some sort of DEW armor.

• IAmBroom 1y ago
  Well, as long as you're willing to wear (essentially) fishtanks into battle, it might work. One little layer of wet clothes isn't going to do much against Directed Energy Weapons - unless you were just really anxious about condensation.
  • paulnpace 1y ago
    It can't conduct heat to human skin. The concept, in this case, wouldn't be to merely prevent a material from catching fire, but to keep the person from being burned or steam-boiled. However, the general concept could also be applied to protecting things besides people, such as vehicles or buildings. I don't actually know very much about the wavelengths used by DEW, so I'm not clear if water, alone, is a practical as shielding, but could be used as a heat sink, especially when factoring in latent heat of vaporization.