Re: Best space heater for winter?

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:51:30 -0400, Neon John wrote:

> The two are totally unrelated. Wind chill is an attempt to quantify the
> effect wind has on the perception of temperature by humans. It does not
> take humidity into account. The wind chill would be the same whether the
> RH was 0 or 100%. The sling pyschrometer or swamp cooler have slightly
> different dependencies on humidity.

You are, of course, correct. I find that wind chill does not have anything
to do with relative humidity.

>
> A decent idea when conceived, wind chill has turned into little more
> than something the TV weather idiots can scream about. Being a
> subjective scale, it has little to do with science.

The funny part is I had a high school friend whose father was one of those
who first formulated the wind chill chart (he was a Canadian).

Of course- down here the TV weather people are enraptured by the "heat
index"- temperature is 95°, but with the heat index, it feels like 178°.

--
Chris Bryant
http://bryantrv.com


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