for background, I shaved my forearms for practicing methods of shaving my legs. low-key a mistake, don’t think id recommend shaving arms lol

I picked up a pizza after getting a shower and to dry out my hair faster I didn’t turn on the AC, was in a hot car in Florida for like 5m while it cooked and this is what happened. Pretty cool!

Edit: also it’s interesting to visualize how much water is lost when you sweat

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        Yes, what’s so confusing?

        Water freezes to the coils, and the heat melts it and it drips out of the vehicle. Same process happens inside houses too, but it drips into a drain instead.

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          I’d argue that hot humid air condensing on a cold stone might be a natural dehumidifier, but I’m not sure that refrigerant being compressed in a high-pressure system and then allowed to rapidly decompress through coils captured in dense arrays of metal fins while a fan blows across them qualifies as a “natural” process.

          Anyway, I was just being a little silly about describing an Air Conditioner’s primary function as a natural process.

          Then I realized it could come off as a little mean, so I selectively and deliberately misconstrued “dehumidify” in a way to make myself sound like a conspiracy theorist.

          Now, let’s put on our foil hats and speculate wildly instead of explaining our comments! THEY want us to fight so that they can take our McRibs!

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            Are you arguing physics aren’t a part of nature…?

            Also, natural has more than a single definition, you’re being intentionally obtuse by focusing on one. It also doesn’t mean it’s part of “nature”.

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              By that logic everything is natural (not arguing this point), and so the adjective is redundant an unnecessary.

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              Are you arguing physics aren’t a part of nature…?

              I… Uhhh… I’m not even sure where to start with that… Like, I see the point you’re trying to prove, but in the context of your initial comment, it’s confusing at best. When you see an airplane flying overhead, leveraging Bernoulli’s Principle to seemingly levitate at speed (similar to how air conditioners leverage Bernoulli’s Principle to displace heat outside of the area in which you want your air conditioned, and to evaporate refrigerant inside that area), do you point at it and say “ain’t nature grand?!” Even an ornithopter, which also leverages Bernoulli’s Principle, but uses the natural motion of birds flapping their wings, would still get you odd looks if you called it a part of nature. But I feel like you probably don’t call planes or any other man-made vehicles parts of nature. Likely, you’re phrasing your question around evaporation, a very natural process, but your initial comment didn’t say “evaporation is natural.” So, by taking my comment about air conditioners, boiling it down to being about physics, not the fact that it’s a man-made appliance that you plug in to achieve anything, you’re attempting to frame an argument out of context. But if you want me to follow you down your rabbit hole of bad faith arguments, then here we go! You only specified physics, are you arguing that chemistry isn’t part of nature…?

              natural has more than a single definition

              I fail to see which one of dictionary.com’s 38 definitions of natural supports calling an air conditioner a natural dehumidifier. While all forms of air conditioning over time have used some form of energy differential to remove hot air, only the modern electric air conditioner (the kind that’s actually called an “air conditioner”) specifically condenses air moisture into a mechanism specifically designed to then remove that moisture from the system entirely. In fact, the original electric air conditioning unit was installed at a publishing company to control the humidity and keep the paper from buckling. The term “air conditioning” was later coined when people experimented with reintroducing moisture into airflow systems, proving that they can truly control the temperature and humidity of an area, a process similar to “water conditioning,” which was a more well-known term.

              you’re being intentionally obtuse

              If an air conditioner’s primary function is removing moisture from air, it would be just as awkward to call it a “natural dehumidifier” as it would be to call a pitching machine a “natural pitcher.” An air conditioner isn’t “naturally” a dehumidifier, it’s literally a dehumidifier. It’s naturally a white noise machine, or it naturally causes nosebleeds if you run it with the heater on in the winter, or it’s naturally able to be used as a filtration system when you use it with the proper Merv-rated HEPA filter.

              Calling an air conditioner a “natural dehumidifier” makes it sound like its purpose is cooling and it just so happens to condense and sink away moisture, but it literally does that by design. Refusing to acknowledge that diminishes the effort, science, and engineering that went into inventing it as an appliance. Hand-waiving that away removes people’s ability to intuitively understand things like sweating (a thing that naturallycools you off) or wet-bulb temperature, which when factoring in global warming means that sweating could eventually not cool you down naturally.

              Toilet paper isn’t naturally absorbent, it is designed to be that; paper towel designs don’t naturally prevent layers from sticking together, they are designed specifically for that reason; hard candies aren’t naturally sweet, they’re designed that way. Differentiating is important to demystify rather than confuse the topic.

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      If you have the heat on in an ICE car you get waste heat from the engine blown into the cabin. The AC does nothing in that case. And even if it did, as in the the AC would be run in reverse like a home heat pump in the winter, moisture would be condensed out of the outside air, not the cabin air.

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        … most vehicles turn the AC on when turned to defrost mode.

        The waste heat blowing across the coils is what unfreezes the moisture for it to drip off. It works better as a dehumidifer the warmer the air blowing across it, as hot air holds more moisture. Also cars have a neat little switch to recycle the air, sometimes it’s automatic with ac, this allows cabin air, instead of waste air to also blow across the coils.