At 09:54 AM 28/08/00 -0400, Mike wrote:
>Since I've seen camping coolers that use a small solar panel to power a solid
>state cooling device, I would imagine that a still suit would have PV
devices to
>power the cooling of collected water by similar means...
But they'd be damned hot to wear, in turn, I think.
A data point: evaporating/venting one gram of water takes off 2.4
kilojoules of heat. I don't know how that would compare with slowly raising
the temperature of a capillary mesh of liquid helium (4.2 degrees K) or
whatever.
Damien Broderick
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