Posted on 07/12/2012 8:40:00 PM PDT by goldstategop
"We looked for high quality research that had compared groups of people using fans with groups who didn't use them during a heatwave [sic]. However, we didn't find any research that met our requirements," the researchers wrote. "Some suggested that fans might reduce health problems, while others suggested that the fans might make things worse."
The team of researchers concluded that a fan that is not directly aimed at a person in temperatures lower than 95 degrees Fahrenheit may help one cool down. However, they said that a fan propped against a window pumping in outside air above 95 degrees could be dangerous, and might actually cause a person's body temperature to increase, putting them at risk.
"This is particularly important for people who are considered more vulnerable to the effects of heat, such as older adults who are less able to cool down through sweating or increasing the flow of blood to their skin," Gupta said in a press release.
While cool air on sweat may feel refreshing, excess sweating can still lead to dehydration and other dangers such as heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
"I would advise caution in using fans for elderly patients during a heat wave with a history of coronary artery disease or hypertension who are on multiple medications which have the ability to impair effective sweating or cooling," added Dr. Robert Glatter, an emergency medicine physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, in an email to HealthPop. Glatter was not involved in the new research.
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Manual fans aren’t permitted either. A human expends energy waving them. To produce the energy, he has to breathe and that produces CO2. Even worse, he has to eat to get the energy to wave the fan. If he eats meat, it’s probably beef and cows produce methane.
Oh my brain hurts from all the academia! LOL!
Let’s face it.
The dems are great at circular logic.
To bad we cant harness all the circular energy for some good.
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This is my first year there and I am very surprised that it is still quite comfortable and very livable this late in the season. Weeks of temps in the 100s, no AC. |
My grandfather had a big 4 ft. attic fan in the center of his house.
It had 4 blades, belt driven by a big electric motor.
When he put it on high speed during the hottest part of the day, the curtains on all the windows were blowing inwards like there was a 10-15 mph breeze blowing outside.
It kept the house comfortable even in south Louisiana.
I was sitting at a bar on cape cod 2 weeks ago and it was HOT!.
The bartender whipped out a Vornado and man was i impressed!!
I have never seen one before, gotta get me one i think.
That is so true! I had a friend who lived in an old farmhouse with no a/c. Shade trees on the west side. High ceilings with double hung windows. You were warm, but not overwhelmingly miserable. Now right now I am suffering in my ranch style box. Swamp coolers are no good over 105 and 30% humidity. This weekend I’m going to get an a/c, Mr Gracie1 be damned!
It’s hot.
I turn on the fan.
I get cool.
“Study” over. Now shut the hell up and go get a real job, morons.
I hope you get some relief.
I would suggest a decent window for a chosen room.
A safe place.
I hope you get some relief.
I would suggest a decent window unit for a chosen room.
A safe place.
My power was off for four days after the big storms we had a couple weeks ago. It was 95°+ each day. I bought two little battery-powered camping fans at Walmart and kept them blowing on me at all times.
I HATE the heat. My Swedish blood starts boiling at about 80°. But as long as those fans were on me, I was comfy. I don’t think I sweat a drop in those four days.
Little did I know how close I was to death. Oh my.
Michelle O would probably say to go outside and run really, really fast!
We all better send in our personal “studies” to these idiots. Amazing how civilization has survived so long without their academic opinion/assessment.
If you have water, a mist (we have some black, flat, soaker hose which sprays a fine mist along its length) on/next to the side of the house can drop temps by 5-10 degrees inside, but if your water has lots of minerals in it, it could leave a mineral stain on your siding.
The idea is to create a microclimate, inside the home or just around it which is more bearable than that outside your immediate area.
The solution is to have the government dole out air conditioners along with the welfare checks.
so if I put a sprinkler on so it sprayed the south side of my house (brick)it would keep my house cooler or am I misunderstanding this?
I just a girl, or doesn’t that work anymore?
That’s just like my grand parents house.Huge fan at the end
of the hallway.That sucker would make the curtains stand out.
I still use a seventy y/o fan that swings back forth..
The A/C has to be one of the great inventions of history tho
There’s really not much to do on a hot day so why not get a grant, do a study of “FANS”. How absurd!
More government waste?
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