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(cargo?) WARM HEAVY work-pants? (google not much help)
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(cargo?) WARM HEAVY work-pants? (google not much help)
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(Nick Pine) wrote:
Doug Miller wrote:
A human body is not sufficiently warmer than its environment to lose
much heat by radiation...
It is, on a cold clear day.
Not in comparison to the heat lost through evaporation and
conduction/convection. Not even close.
I disagree. Got numbers?
In general, radiation is about an order of magnitude less effective at
transferring heat than conduction or convection.
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