Have You Tried Using Cheese?
And in brief British heatwave news:
Dr Ben Roberts, a senior lecturer in healthy buildings at Loughborough University, said applying yoghurt to the outside of windows can lower the temperature by up to 3.5C.
It was a month-long experiment. Behold your taxes at work.
In May, Dr Roberts and PhD student Niloo Todeh-Kharman conducted an experiment on two identical test houses at Loughborough University by putting yoghurt on the windows of one, but not the other. The experiment found the indoor temperature of the house with yoghurt on the windows was on average 0.6C cooler, but up to a maximum of 3.5C cooler when it was “hot and sunny.”
And before you ask,
[Dr Roberts] told the BBC the yoghurt smells for “30 seconds when drying” but that as soon as it has dried “the smell disappears.”
Oh, and should you be tempted:
For their experiment, the scientists at Loughborough University used a supermarket-brand of Greek yoghurt that has a fat percentage of about 10%.
Do let us know how it goes.
Should clarity be required, this is not some miraculous property of yoghurt, even of Greek yoghurt at 10% fat. It’s merely a function of any substance that can be smeared onto windows before drying white. Presumably, similar effects could be achieved by gluing toilet paper onto your windows, which would also alert neighbours to your cunning. Or by purchasing any of the commercially available window films that do much the same thing, only better.
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Amazed they had a whole month of hot weather.
[ Looks out of window at dull, overcast sky. ]
Given the amount of 10% fat Greek yoghurt required, and the possibility of repeated applications, and the issues regarding the eventual removal of said substance, it seems entirely plausible that buying commercial UV window sheets, which can be had for £7, would actually be the cheaper option.
Light colored mud? Clay? Chalk mixed with water?
Surely anything other than an edible.
[ Starts nailing cheese and toilet paper to windows. ]
Just curious … did they measure the ‘albedo’ of the particular yoghurt used in the experiment? I expect Cherry yoghurt has a somewhat higher albedo than plain yoghurt, and may not reflect the heat as well.
Lower, surely?
But clearly, we need months of taxpayer funding to find out.
The words insult and injury come to mind.
A solution in search of a problem.
Well, at best, a bizarrely impractical solution – of a sort – to a problem that was solved quite effectively, and cheaply, decades ago.
I don’t put YAH-gurt on my windows. Here in the States we use YOH-gurt. Big difference.
Whoops … lower albedo. So much for my sciency memory.
Pepperidge Farms remembers when David was complaining about dew points in the low 60s. :-p
[ Unintelligible muttering. ]
When it comes to ClimateChange™ there is nothing so stupid that it won’t get funding (if you are of the correct political persuasion, it’s all about wealth redistribution).
What if I want to actually see through my windows?
Don’t harsh his vibe, man.
Ooh! He has an MSc in Energy Policy! So, advanced degrees in policy bullshit.
He looks pretty much like you might expect.
The stupider the better, because that’s academia today.
Also the crazy idea of awnings to block direct sunlight.
Marginally related: I’m currently in a long-term project to persuade people in my HOA of the financial benefits of replacing their 40-year-old windows with modern replacements which radically reduce transmission of ultraviolet and heat.
Unlimited lucrative income sources for useless people.
Didn’t Bastiat write, long ago, about rent seeking?
One not covered in yoghurt?
As does utter selfishness.
…senior lecturer in healthy buildings…
“Senior”, I suppose for a field made up last week, maybe.
Back to the divorce upstream…
A fan of woo of all sorts, it seems.
Just closed his eyes and sired the two kids for England, I guess.
I know, right, because people choose to have cancer.
Regardless, one would think that violating the marriage contract via inability to cleave unto the lesser vessel by deciding you need to swap out your AC for DC would be an open and shut case of “Get out of my courtroom”.
“Reasonable”. Lifting mightier than old Atlas himself.
If this information gets out it’ll be curtains for the, er, curtain industry.
…it seems entirely plausible that buying commercial UV window sheets, which can be had for £7, would actually be the cheaper option.
Where is the post-apocalyptic, improvisation-out-of-necessity drama in purchasing an off-the-shelf solution such as that?
…it seems entirely plausible that buying commercial UV window sheets, which can be had for £7, would actually be the cheaper option.
There is always the trailer park special, aluminum foil, extra benefit as it is reusable for other purposes.
OT but in case you were wondering… How to sell to the Negro. Circa 1954. The short version.
I suppose the question is which will be harder to come by in this post-apocalyptic wasteland. UV window film, £7 a roll on Amazon, or catering quantities of 10%-fat Greek yoghurt?
#TensionMounts
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
An academic in search of funding.
Perhaps the good Doctor could experiment with his own feces when they lock him up in the nuthouse. That’d be really cheap and it would only smell for a few days while it dried.
[ Tries to think of excuse to once again use BEHOLD MY ANUS category tag. ]
Please update your files and lifestyles accordingly.
You know each of them is thinking “she doesn’t look like a woman” about the other.
They’re not really selling it, that’s for sure.
I’m just going to leave this here for no reason whatsoever.
Collision with reality detected. Better late than never, I guess.
[The husband] argued that “it would be like saying someone who had cancer should not have the surgery…
[Grips edge of table, tries not to scream profanities . . .]
My husband is presently fighting Stage IV oral cancer (specifically his tongue but “tongue cancer” sounds like an impossibility. He has had one chemo session already, and has another one coming up on Friday. One more after that and then, hopefully, surgery that will also involve reconstruction of his tongue. His hair has begun falling out and he asked me today to help him shave it all off. Which is having a very, very bad mental effect on me because it just drives home, my partner of 30+ years is facing what could be dire consequences.
Oh, what the hell, we’re all adults here . . .
And this narcissistic motherfucker wanted to get his willy chopped off and have his ex-wife pay for it – even though it is NOT her choice that he should become a clone of Frankenstein’s monster with a faux-gina – and thinks it is akin to CANCER?!
FUCK him, fuck the horse he rode in on, fuck the judge, and fuck his lawyer (or barrister, whatever) because I know when I practiced law, I would have told a shithead asking me to make that argument to get the hell out of my office. Goddamn selfish wankstain. Can’t pay his child support but can spend it on his delusion AND expect her to pay over $107,000?! Again, fuck him.
Thank you. I feel better now.
[ Slides fortifying beverage to Stephanie. ]
On the house.
So sorry to hear of your husband’s situation. Exactly what you say here. And don’t let anyone tell you different. The insanity has to stop. There’s a real world out there with real problems and every minute, every second, every dollar every pound wasted on this woke, etc. utter bullshit is a slap in the face to the real people who are working very hard facing real problems.
On the house.
Very much obliged.
Oh Lord, my deepest sympathies for you and him!
Not that we’re all going to face such terrible things as phlematically as Lee Marvin…
And fuck Obama et al who pushed the lunatic idea that every little complaint “deserves” to be paid for by someone else.
My sympathies. God’s grace on you both.
The internet was a godsend to narcissistic motherfuckers.
I hope everything works out.
Stephanie: so sorry about your husband. At my age, it has become like a battle front, with friends and relatives dropping dead all around me. argh. As you said, and the horse he rode in on. Too easy for lawyers to argue for taking other people’s stuff.
As to the guy who got robbed that Wayne posted–you do not know when someone breaks in if they might just shoot you for shits and giggles. If they will violate your home there is not an obvious limit to what they might do..
More from the legal front:
Tries to kidnap an 11 year old. Check.
Claims on Farcebook to be “trans”. Check.
Too incompetent to stand trial. Check.
Obvious choice, drop charges and release.
Agreed.
According to police and crime experts, the sneak thief–the burglar who thinks he is breaking into an empty house–is far less likely to commit violence. But the criminal who breaks into a house which he knows is occupied or believes it may be occupied is very likely to commit violence, including aggravated battery, rape, and murder: These are people with a propensity for violence, and immediate application of deadly violence is the proper response.