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4d ago

Experiment finds yoghurt can lower house temperature

Experiment finds yoghurt can lower house temperature

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32945598

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Davriellelouna @lemmy.world

4d ago

Experiment finds yoghurt can lower house temperature

www.bbc.com /news/articles/cg4rg3nqq7go

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I used to work at a zoo. When you introduce a new animal to an exhibit, you soap the window so they don't hurt themselves in their confusion. Just... Take a bar of soap and fog up the window with it.
Probably smells a lot better too.
- Oh I always assumed that that inevitable wear and tear on the window, or poor maintenance
- I'd guess this would be significantly cheaper too.
- If im a monkee in da zoo imma lick that shit doe 🙊🐒🐵🙉
  
  You could soap the outside, but then the outside monkeys (children) would lick it off...

this seems ridiculous, why not just shut the window blind?
- But that won't give you that cheesy smell.
  
  According to the article the smell diappears after 30 seconds
  So for a quick&dirty solution it should be fine
- window binds still let the light into the house where the energy then turns to heat.
  Heat-reducing window-tint on the other hand is pretty easy to install.
  honestly, on the outside, the yoghurt probably isn't a particularly durable layer (i.e. going away after the first rain,) and probably gets to smelling funky. On the inside, it's probably going to also smell funky.
  
  Note sure what they're called, but plenty of houses here have metal blinds on the outside that work perfectly for blocking the sun.
  
  Maybe my understanding of blinds is wrong, but the ones on my window get pretty close to completely dark. Add a decent curtain (with insulation and blackout) on the inside, and I can keep the flat comfortable passively.
  Whatever else you do, close the damn windows and doors during the day, and fling them wide open as soon as its cooler.
- Do you apply it to the outside? Then it’s the outside of the glass that gets heated and not your blinds inside your house.
- Absolutely.
  If it's too hot inside the house but there is still sun passing through the window there is definitely something wrong
  Window blind, awning, sun breaker, trees ... There is plenty of solutions

Tinfoil is twice as effective... Shocker
- Because it blocks those government heat rays. /s
- does it pair well with granola as well?
- It also helps to stop people from looking in the window and seeing you smoke crack

More propaganda from the dairy industry.
- Those damn big-milkers!
  
  I love big milkers and I cannot lie.

Just owning some or do I have to eat it? Am I supposed to apply it to the house to reflect the heat?
- You have to schmeer it on your windows. I dunno. It's stupid
  
  Why is it stupid if it yields results?
  
  Lmao imagine the pov of the cow, live a life of suffering and misery only for your scope in life is to be schmeered on windows.

- To lower the house temperature.
  
  some people just don't rtfa

Reading the comments, TIL some countries spell it yogurt. The more you know!
- Reading the title, TIL some countries spell it yoghurt. The more you know!
  
  Having already known that some countries spell it yoghurt and some spell it yogurt, today I learned nothing. The same amount you know!
- The original spelling is yoğurt, ğ is a silent letter in Turkish so it is anglificated as yoghurt in some languages
- Yoghourt or yogetout

Also mentions tin foil being more effective so why ever bother with the smelly yogurt?
- the yoghurt smells for "30 seconds when drying" but that as soon as it has dried "the smell disappears".
  Also has the advantage of still being transparent.
  
  Well, disadvantage of only barely affecting temperatures though. 3.5C max, 0.6 average is not nothing, but for me at least, part of the problem is the fact that if I don't run AC, the temperatures just keep on climbing indoors. The 5-6C drop of tinfoil sounds more useful, but then they didn't really mention what the average drop is.
  Granted, I realize most people would rather get light through their windows. But personally in bedrooms I'd rather take 0 light as otherwise you only really get 3-4 hours of dark per day in the summer. For other rooms - maybe some of those heat-reflective films? 3M claims theirs manages reduce heating by quite a lot, but probably not as much as foil.

i would just use cheap washable paint...

?

"big milkers want us to buy more dairy to fight climate change"
- big milkers
  I'm listening
- vegans nod amongst themselves
  "I told you, bro!"

I like the idea of low cost ways to prevent heat from getting in, but...

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