User talk:ChrisMP1

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[edit] Ceiling fan article edit

Thanks for your recent contrib to the ceiling fan article. It's good when people edit things, because it sparks thought in new directions.

I admire the originality of your thought, and the level of observance required to note such a detail as a fan's usefulness in humid versus dry climates.

However--and I mean this in an amusing way, rather than offensively--you were totally wrong. The statement about a fan's usefulness in dry versus humid climates was, in fact, not backwards.

This is how the statement read before you edited it:

"Since a fan creates its cooling effect by speeding the evaporation of moisture on human skin, its perceived usefulness is directly correlated with the amount of humidity (moisture) in the room. In dry environments, such as desert climates, a fan has a lesser perceived usefulness than in humid environments; this is especially notable during cold weather, where a humid environment has a pronounced wind-chill effect which is lacking in dry environments."

You said, in your edit summary, to refer to the heat index article. So I did. The introductory paragraph to that article reads:

"The human body normally cools itself by perspiration, or sweating, in which the water in the sweat evaporates and carries heat away from the body. However, when the relative humidity is high, the evaporation rate of water is reduced. This means heat is removed from the body at a lower rate, causing it to retain more heat than it would in dry air.""

...thus proving that my original statement in my ceiling fan article was correct. In humid climates, heat is naturally removed from the body at a lower rate than in dry climates, causing a person to remain hotter longer than in dry climates. Thus, there is a greater need for a fan than in desert climates--thus it is perceived as being more useful.

I saw, via your userpage, that you've grown up in New York. I'm originally from the east coast myself, and I lived here my whole life save for two years in Utah--a very distinct desert climate. The lack of humidity out there is actually quite a pleasure. In the summer there, it can be 105 degrees and feel no hotter than 85 here on the east coast--you look at the thermometer there and say "Wow, I didn't realize it's over 100--this isn't that uncomfortable!". I wasn't dying for a fan there, the way I do here. Also, the converse is true--the winters out there are more bearable than they are here. They don't seem as cold, because the humidity is really what adds the "bone-chilling" factor into the mix.

Anyhow, I've reverted your edit to the ceiling fan article. But thanks for reading it and contributing! In the future, before making edits to statements of fact in an already-established article, please get a consensus on the article's talk page.

Thanks! Piercetheorganist 12:20, 27 June 2007 (UTC)