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Brought up whenever wearable cooling or heat extremes come up, as a real worked example of a pumped-coolant cooling suit.
Adam Savage and engineer Kipp Bradford build a compact wearable refrigeration system to keep Adam cool under costumes, modeled on the cooling unit in a NASA spacesuit simulator. It is a long, hands-on build session.
Pre-Covid, Adam Savage built a portable condensing/evap cooling system using an old Soviet flight suit. He teamed up with an engineer to make it happen. Fascinating design/build video. [this video]
Adam Savage builds a portable cooling suit with an engineer.
> Now if you can get a miniaturized mechanical heat pump that has higher efficiency (day a coefficient of performance of 2-4) and you need to last for much longer than an hour, I think you can significantly beat the weight of an ice pack... Adam Savage did a video where he and someone who appears ridiculously well-qualified built one of these [this video]
Ironically, the cosplay space has this covered. They have portable battery powered air conditioners connected to astronaut-style onesies-with-coolant-pipes. Unfortunately they're still manually assembled, so not quite readily available yet. [this video] <- Adam savage building one for an astronaut cosplay suit.
Adam Savage builds a cooling suit for astronaut cosplay.
Adam Savage built such a suit though it was not solar powered. He used it for cosplaying in oppressive heat and the AC was an upgrade over using ice. [this video]
Adam Savage's AC-cooled cosplay suit, upgraded from ice.
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