Something else to worry about?

Just when we learn that doing things to "detoxify" your body is a medical myth, we now have to worry about mephitic air! 

Naaw, just kidding. This is something that Ben Franklin cooked up way back in the old days, with the result that his friend John Adams almost froze his ass one night in New Jersey on his way to sign the Declaration of Independence. Never mind, my Boston mother believed it anyway!

Read about it in Chapter 3 of the book --- If I ever get it finished! (But meanwhile get a free copy of what I hope is one of its more entertaining chapters by clicking on the cover image to the right.)

Something else to worry about?

Just when we learn that doing things to "detoxify" your body is a medical myth, we now have to worry about mephitic air! 

Naaw, just kidding. This is something that Ben Franklin cooked up way back in the old days, with the result that his friend John Adams almost froze his ass one night in New Jersey on his way to sign the Declaration of Independence. Never mind, my Boston mother believed it anyway!

Read about it in Chapter 3 of the book --- If I ever get it finished! (But meanwhile get a free copy of what I hope is one of its more entertaining chapters by clicking on the cover image to the right.)

It's a bit of a breeze you'll be needing

Contrary to what you might read in standard western books on thermal comfort, people in the tropics are not really troubled by a slight breeze, by which they mean 1 to 2 meters per second. But this vastly changes their perception of temperature as you can see here. Even temperatures up to 35 deg C can be accepted with a “slight breeze”. Right axis is temperature in Celsius, left is wind velocity, meters per second. Most people find the blue zones comfortable.

MODELLING THERMAL COMFORT FOR TROPICS USING FUZZY LOGIC

Henry Feriadi, Wong Nyuk Hien
Department of Building, School of Design and Environment National University of Singapore
4 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117566

It's a bit of a breeze you'll be needing

Contrary to what you might read in standard western books on thermal comfort, people in the tropics are not really troubled by a slight breeze, by which they mean 1 to 2 meters per second. But this vastly changes their perception of temperature as you can see here. Even temperatures up to 35 deg C can be accepted with a “slight breeze”. Right axis is temperature in Celsius, left is wind velocity, meters per second. Most people find the blue zones comfortable.

MODELLING THERMAL COMFORT FOR TROPICS USING FUZZY LOGIC

Henry Feriadi, Wong Nyuk Hien
Department of Building, School of Design and Environment National University of Singapore
4 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117566

Fiery sun rising over BKK like the eye of Sauron

Sauron coming this way

The last two days, driving out the coolth and pushing temp to 36 deg C (95 F). More coming.

(Been watching The Hobbit with my wifes nephews and nieces visiting Bangkok. Still a great story!)

Fiery sun rising over BKK like the eye of Sauron

Sauron coming this way

The last two days, driving out the coolth and pushing temp to 36 deg C (95 F). More coming.

(Been watching The Hobbit with my wifes nephews and nieces visiting Bangkok. Still a great story!)

Amazing Thailand, disaster floods and drought at the same time

Or is that the media love to wish bad things come on the happy life in our little Thai Shire? Or perhaps to use the place as a bogus locale of a coming apocalypse?