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re: radiator placement
25 mar 2005
steve scott wrote:
>cross posting eliminated
and restored.
>i realize you're not an engineer, nick, but you sure think like one.
thanks. two engineering degrees and 40 years of practice have helped.
>i sat with an engineer in his breakfast nook a few nights ago. he
>proceeded to tell me why i was wrong...
sounds like an engineer :-)
>a few minutes later while we were discussing other aspects of his
>project a surprised look came across his face and he said, "you're
>right. my left side (facing the window) is colder."
it's hard to argue with reality.
>we place heat emitters near cold surfaces for human comfort...
it warms them up.
>>>most humans radiate heat faster to cool surfaces than warmer surfaces.
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>>humans radiate at the same rate, but warmer surfaces radiate more back.
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>are you saying a surface that is colder than we are radiates heat to us?
absolutely. that's 300 years of settled physics.
nick
(i wonder who keeps cancelling this posting...)
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