Ideal Gas Law
Several friends from a vendor’s company came to upgrade a system. As soon as they entered the lab, they asked if the air-conditioning was turned off – it was a chilly rainy day in December; I was wearing a cashmere sweater in addition to a heavy-duty cotton turtleneck, and these people were in short-sleeves and jeans…. (and still complained about the heat???)“Well,” looking around the lab, I observed to them, “recently we have had a lot of people working under a lot of pressure in the lab. And when people are under a lot of pressure, they generate a lot of heat.”
“It's the Ideal Gas Law, PV=nRT .”
-- This law tells us that, in the same room (V), with n and R constant, the more the pressure (P), the higher the temperature (T).
Learning from the Ideal Gas Law, I have a suggestion to the French government:
In the winter when the electricity and gas labor unions again decide to go on strike and leave the general public to the cold fronts, the government should pressure the employed a little more so they would generate heat and warm themselves as well as their colleagues. This would probably encourage more unemployed to actively seek employment. Consequently, more people would be kept off street, which would lower not only the double-digit unemployment rate, but also the crime rate.
I haven’t figured out a solution to cope with French heatwave, if it hits again. Given the ideal gas law, now I am not sure urging EVERYBODY to go to the movie theaters would be a good idea….
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7:33 PM
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