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Japan unveils 'human refrigerator' to combat extreme summer heat

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18 points by decimalenough 16 hours ago · 10 comments

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abstractspoon 3 hours ago

It can't be efficient to cool one person at a time

  • one33seven 3 hours ago

    In Berlin the left party plans to establish large cooled rooms throughout the city where multiple fit

rasz 8 hours ago

or you could just dunk your elbows into some ice water

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/quick-and-cheap-cooling-solutio...

https://www.hprc-online.org/sites/default/files/2026-03/HPRC...

https://www.army.mil/article/257626/the_arm_immersion_coolin...

super high tech https://www.firstlinetech.com/core-tech/arm-immersion/

bamboozled 8 hours ago

What about , planting some trees ?

  • Krssst 3 hours ago

    Summers are very hot and humid. Expect max temps of 36C high humidity throughout July and August, possibly the best part of September. Some trees bringing down the temperature by 2C (random figure, curious about the real one) would be nice but silver bullet.

    • bamboozled 2 hours ago

      I live...in Japan and I lived, in Tokyo and there are no trees, basically only concrete, hence the inspiration for my comment.

  • retrochameleon 3 hours ago

    An obnoxiously ignorant suggestion for Japan, of all places.

    • one33seven 3 hours ago

      Is that so? They have a large forested area, but inside the cities? Greener cities are cooler.

    • bamboozled 2 hours ago

      I live in Japan so I have some experience. There are almost zero trees in all of the hottest places where the majority of people dwell. There are basically three decent sized parks with trees in the entire Tokyo metro area, which is tens of millions of peoples home. Literally the only way to survive most summers is hopping from air con to air con. I couldn't really stand it so I left.

  • hulitu 7 hours ago

    Trees burn.

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