• 4am@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    The motor wouldn’t generate enough heat to do that. It’s likely that the room temperature exceeds body temperature and the fan is just circulating hot air and people end up dehydrated and with heat stroke

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      6 days ago

      The motor wouldn’t generate enough heat to do that.

      To do what, exactly?
      I didn’t name any particular situation, such as health-problems due to heat, but as I understand it, running a fan can indeed increase the overall temperature of a room in some situations, such as closed windows / doors.

      The effect might be mostly balanced-out by having the fan directly blowing upon oneself, but the ambient, closed-room temp might indeed rise. That’s not a controversial concept, far as I know.

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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        4 days ago

        it would increase the temperature of the room way less than just having another person in there, like i think fans generally draw maybe 30 watts whereas a resting human outputs 80 watts of body heat.