Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees
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Re: Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees
#2There have been a lot of such materials over the years, but for some strange reason, none of them ever gets commercialized. We could have been using them all over the place, on all surfaces that expose to sunlight, but they're nowhere to be found.
Re: Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees
#3Are we now just in the timeline where David Bowie's https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Fell_to_Earth happens?
Re: Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees
#4There have been a lot of such materials over the years, but for some strange reason, none of them ever gets commercialized. We could have been using them all over the place, on all surfaces that expose to sunlight, but they're nowhere to be found.
Probably because they're impossibly hard or expensive to manufacture at scale and nobody was willing to front the money to kickstart the research to commercialize.
Re: Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees
#5There have been a lot of such materials over the years, but for some strange reason, none of them ever gets commercialized. We could have been using them all over the place, on all surfaces that expose to sunlight, but they're nowhere to be found.
Probably because they're impossibly hard or expensive to manufacture at scale and nobody was willing to front the money to kickstart the research to commercialize.
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Re: Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees
#6I feel like the title should qualify that this is 16degF
Re: Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees
#7There have been a lot of such materials over the years, but for some strange reason, none of them ever gets commercialized. We could have been using them all over the place, on all surfaces that expose to sunlight, but they're nowhere to be found.
Probably because they're impossibly hard or expensive to manufacture at scale and nobody was willing to front the money to kickstart the research to commercialize.
"Silver nanowires" is probably the limiting factor on this one. Silver isn't that rare but it's certainly not cheap compared to normal textile fibers.
Re: Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees
#8I feel like the title should qualify that this is 16degF
what else could it be ;)
Re: Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees
#9I feel like the title should qualify that this is 16degF
8.89°C
Re: Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably because they're impossibly hard or expensive to manufacture at scale and nobody was willing to front the money to kickstart the research to commercialize.
"Silver nanowires" is probably the limiting factor on this one. Silver isn't that rare but it's certainly not cheap compared to normal textile fibers.
Also probably a skin and lung irritant. Lots of people have contact allergies to macroscale silver and nanowires tend to get embedded in cells in soft tissue.