Chris
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an alternative way to stay cool is to rinse your shirt under a tap, wring it, and wear it. Latent heat of evaporation will do the rest, and once it's dry, do it again. Rinse, wring, wear, repeat.
oh, but the creases !
an alternative way to stay cool is to rinse your shirt under a tap, wring it, and wear it. Latent heat of evaporation will do the rest, and once it's dry, do it again. Rinse, wring, wear, repeat.
(...) The summer of '76 was really hot. I thought last night's temperature was a little cold for the time of year, but energy bills must be justified.
And remember to switch off the Naim when you're not using it.
my homebrew headphone amp has seen a lot of use.
It's compact, solid state, ...also Class A & presently c.24W @ idle of overkill on its own...
Hopefully your SS can cope with the heat, otherwise it may blow the output transistors and take the speakers with them. Use a small tube amplifier instead, first watt is important and no need for more than 5 watts (when having efficient speakers).
I do the same thing with my Tilly hat, soak it thoroughly, squeeze the excess out, and wear it - fabulous.If you can't afford to run air conditioning or you like to imagine you can control the Earth's enthalpy then an alternative way to stay cool is to rinse your shirt under a tap, wring it, and wear it. Latent heat of evaporation will do the rest, and once it's dry, do it again. Rinse, wring, wear, repeat. Unlike air-conditioning, evaporation has a noise floor below 100dB.
The summer of '76 was really hot. I thought last night's temperature was a little cold for the time of year, but energy bills must be justified.
oh, but the creases !
The daytime temperature is 45°c with peaks of 50°c in Qatar (home) over the next few days.
Yet according to UK press we're going to be dying in 'thousands' and the TV weather maps have gone blood red. Valve-amp-cum-air-conditioner criminals should be ashamed! ;-) It's a wonder anybody dares to brave Ibiza's death camps. Meanwhile I'm young enough to remember 1970s TV climate science evangelists promising a catastrophic ice age any day now. I remember one show where a bloke opens his front door in horror to the glare of a frozen tundra which has arrived overnight - still frightening when you consider the reliability of experts in recent years.
Enjoy your valves!
Yet according to UK press we're going to be dying in 'thousands' and the TV weather maps have gone blood red. Valve-amp-cum-air-conditioner criminals should be ashamed! ;-) It's a wonder anybody dares to brave Ibiza's death camps. Meanwhile I'm young enough to remember 1970s TV climate science evangelists promising a catastrophic ice age any day now. I remember one show where a bloke opens his front door in horror to the glare of a frozen tundra which has arrived overnight - still frightening when you consider the reliability of experts in recent years.
Enjoy your valves!
One of those who gave most credence to the New Ice Age theory was William Rees-Mogg, father of Jacob, and then-editor of The Times.To be fair to those climate scientists, the general trend was towards a cooler climate. One thing they were correct about was that climate change is rapid, around 100 years, from one state to another. The natural records that were being used at the time (tree rings, varves and ice cores) all seemed to confirm that climate change is much quicker than most thought possible. Even Fred Hoyle was predicting an imminent Ice Age due to an atmospheric phenomenon which created ice crystals in the atmosphere which in turn reflected heat away from the planet.
I don't think so. The steady state theory Hoyle, Gold and Bondi) was good for its time (1948) and also explained the expansion that was observed but it wasn't until the cosmic background radiation was discovered in 1965 That the Big Bang theory was accepted and did away with the steady state.One of those who gave most credence to the New Ice Age theory was William Rees-Mogg, father of Jacob, and then-editor of The Times.
He devoted several doom-laden leading articles to the subject, the last of which was published just ahead of the record hot summer of 1976.
And wasn’t Fred Hoyle the chap who denied that the universe was expanding despite overwhelming evidence that it was?
They will indeed. I have a friend who has just taken out his gas boiler and installed an ASH. He had to do extensive alterations to the house to accommodate some very large radiators (they don’t tell you this, but your existing radiators will not be sufficient). Here’s the thing, the bloody place is freezing in the winter and the pump turns itself off past 25C. They have to use an immersion in this heat, with electric heaters in winter. The future!Because they’ll stop working