House too hot? Energy bill already too high? This UK professor says smearing yogurt on your windows can cool your home
Well... it beats eating it, I suppose!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-too-hot-energy-bill-160226941.htmlOpen linkView original on lemmus.org
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was the study funded by Chobani?
Aluminum foil and masking tape is a cheap option, far cheaper than enough yogurt to coat your windows, but in some places your neighbors might suspect you're running a meth lab.
Foamboard insulation, like they put under some types of siding, is cheapish and can be cut to fit inside a window frame easily. Bonus points for being easy to remove and replace.
You can find rolls of the same bubble material they make car sunshades out of for probably less than the gallons of yogurt this would require.
And as others have mentioned blackout curtains, awnings, chalk, window markers and paint all exist.
All of these things are probably going to be more effective, and most importantly SMELL much better, than using yogurt.
Yogurt is the dumbest idea possible.
UK not heard about solar window films? They actually reflect out all the radiant heat.
House too hot? Energy bill too high? This UK professor says throwing Carbonara at the sky can keep god's hubris in check.
That's how we'd get The Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Why the fuck would you ever think to use yoghurt when greenhouse whitewash is already a thing, and probably cheaper as well?
Or you could use powdered chalk on the outside of your windows. It reflects the heat before it gets inside your house and it's not fucking yogurt. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260625-why-the-french-are-painting-chalk-on-their-windows
even easier use foil.
or use, oh, I dunno, an inexpensive clear film designed to reflect radiant heat without have your apartment look like a meth lab?
How would chalk even fuck yogurt?? /s
People are saying foil.
What about the foil lids of fruit corners?
Or yogurt, even!
Reuse, repurpose, recycle.
Coming from Australia where not single house I’d ever been to had air conditioning.
This is fucking hilarious.
Mate, worse comes to worst get a bucket, to damp a towel, and a tiny fan.
Jesus Christ. Don’t spread fuckin yogurt on your windows you dumb cunts.
For those who might not know, the towel, bucket of water, and fan method works via evaporative cooling.
However, it does not work well in higher humidity, and may not even seem to work at all since it would increase the humidity even further. I'm guessing most of Europe is too humid for this to work and is why it usually doesn't come up in these kinds of articles.
Yeah this wouldn't work on the UK, the reason the great hits garde here is because of how humid it is. It becomes almost rainforest like.
Curious about what parts of Aus because everywhere I’ve been since the 2000’s has aircon
Queensland, late 90’s left in 2008. Open doors with fly screens and most definitely no air cond anywhere except shopping centres.
Don't know where you are, but I'm in Melbourne, and we have plenty of AC for cooling. What we are lacking though is a proper summer where it's worth turning that on.
Yes, and now on google maps, I can see that a lot of houses have solar panels. It was not the case when I grew up in Queensland 40+ degree heat, in a house made of plywood and fly screens in Nerang and the coolest place around was Pac Fair.
Nice, unless it comes down to starving or dying of heat exhaustion.
Ah yes, the smell of rotting dairy to keep cool.
I'd imagine using tin foil or black out curtains would be just as effective without the stench.
The article says it doesn’t smell, but yeah foil will be way more effective
White out curtains.
Black out curtains with a white side facing the window tends to be most effective.
both are shit options and just trap heat between the window and the curtains.
You need to reflect back the infra red heat at the glass.
Yep. Black for the winter, white for the summer.
Maybe soy or coconut yogurt works as well. Then you just have the smell of rotting plants.
Cool I'll get right on it
Feeling a draft in the winter? This UK professor says cramming cottage cheese in your window sills can keep your home warm.
Hang on, I thought cottage cheese was only for winterizing your cottage. You can use it for your regular home too?
Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants!
Stinky hot dairy products. Sounds like a republican plot.
Put up awnings over your exterior windows, place translucent bright colored/white films over windows, get curtains with a white outward facing side.
In the same week after doing the above, the interior temp of my living room was almost 10 degrees less, on the warmer latter half of the week. And I live in what is essentially a trailer cemented to the foundation, so insulation isn't great.
A lot of people say get blackout curtains, but it's important that they have a light colored exterior to keep from absorbing heat and radiating it to the inside. The two windows in my bedroom are total black on one, and white/red in the other. The black one blocks out all light, but is noticeably warm next to the window. The white/red one is much cooler, even when in full sun.
Did he try curtains or window blinds as well? Southern Europeans say it works.
Sun shades work best outside the window.
This is in Hamilton, Canada. The building makes passive solar heat, active solar electricity and sun shades keep the building cool.
No one's going to write an article about someone using curtains.