StringJunky

The obsolescence is inevitable, given the rate of technological change. When society designs things, it should focus more on the inevitable post-service life and reducing the number of processes it takes to make its components useful again.

Aye. In the words of the great social commentator Shania Twain: Ka-ching! Cash and silicone; the path to influence.

But what happens when the cold is sustained; it precipitates out and you are left with dry air. Dry-cold air is subjectively warmer than wet-cold air.

Money attracts money and once it reached a certain critical mass, it's gravy all the way. Recipients then become full of their own importance, even on matters where they have no real skills.

I get bored with false dichotomies. But that's the way our minds work, isn't it? We instinctively seek clear delineations (boxes) to explain what we observe. The brain abhors fuzziness and uncertainty.

Walk from a clear area into a mist, you feel the heat draining off you. A sustained period of low temps condenses the air from a previously warmer period; temperatures are always in transition and the atmospheric ensemble plays catch up.

Yeah, 22% would dry out my throat and dry out more my already dry skin. In this country, mould is quite ubiquitous when people warm their houses and don't ventilate regularly. I can't think of many people that have air-con like you seem to have your side.

Thanks, JC.

Right. I bought it because, apparently, it was the type most suitable for dehumidifying in the lower temperature range; sub 20's. My comfort range is about 12-15c, if the humidity is not too high. Sat down I'll be in a jumper, but if I'm active a t-shirt is fine. @studiot Thanks for sharing your experience. Do you think in some circumstances it makes more sense to deal with humidity rather than a low temperature. My thinking is, the heavier the air, the more efficient heat transfer is from skin to the immediate environment, so, making one colder. Do you have a long seasonal transition period of high humidity with low temperatures, where you are, before the humidity plummets?

My portable dehumidifier is a desiccant type. The air that comes out is probably 3 or 4c higher in a 15' x 10' space. Consumption is 600w. Would 600w be fairly economical to makew the space what I call autumnal temperature; 14c. I find it striking that people go through Autumn here with no heating, then come the proper cold, they whack it up 6c higher or more than they were happy with the prior two months.

If you prefer to use hundreds of words when a simple few seconds of a video will do ... fill your boots.

Normal variation in ambient humidity. Any excess is due to human occupation. Let's assume there is no excess stored moisture in the surfaces... nothing is damp as such in a long-term way..

Scenario; A room has a temperature of 10c and high humidity. We want to increase the comfort of the occupier. Is it generally energetically more economical to bring down the humidity or warm up the room a few degrees to increase comfort?

Look at your words and apply them to yourself.

Some self-reflection on this post wouldn't go amiss.

I wasn't totally happy with that that last bit but left it with no alternative at the time. it interferes with itself on passing through the slits.

It travels through the slits as a mathematically-constructed probability wave and when you measure it you will find the photons position. Because a photons energy is discrete we call it a 'particle' after it's measured. We see a dot on the detector. That equates to a quantum of energy. If we collect lots of these dots, we'll see an interference pattern, which tells us that the photons travel in a wave-like manner because of the mutual interference of the split photon.

Okidoki.

If you are narked because nobody's playing ball with you... welcome to presenting ideas in a science forum.

By 'neurons', they could have meant the whole neuronal ensemble. Best for them to clarify.

What does that mean?

You are exercising free will because even though you you still have the occasional urge, you are consistently acting contrary to strong, emotive and visceral desires... your instinct. Take a dog for a walk and a bitch in season walks passed.....

In chronological order? Start from the 1890's when Zionists started concocting the events that led to the debacle that began in 1948. Ultimately, it's the most nationalistic sections of a society that rise up to an external threat first. The same with the early days in the Russo-Ukraine war, the far-right factions of either side were the initial vanguards of paramilitary/partisan actions. They were the first people to put their noses to the conflict grindstone. Hamas are a group of nationalists seeking to free their homeland; in their own eyes. I've also come to the conclusion the use of the word 'extremist' is meaningless, since it is a description that depends on ones position to another. What the respective nationalists are in fact is exclusionists. There's no relativism with this description... someone is either part of something or not.