• JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
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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.