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Fan Death (mortality due to running electric fan in closed room) (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by rCX12@piefed.social to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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 2 points 2 weeks 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.