---
title: "Evaporative Cooling Failure: A Recipe"
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publication: "The Docket"
publisher: "The Docket"
language: "en-US"
guide: "https://anchor.is/docket/llms.txt"
issue: 32
section: "lab"
section_name: "The Lab"
published: 2026-05-13
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# Evaporative Cooling Failure: A Recipe

*May 13, 2026*

[Read on the website](<https://anchor.is/docket/issue/32/lab/article/16002/evaporative-cooling-failure-a-recipe>)

Ingredients: 35°C ambient temperature. 100% relative humidity. One human body, core temperature 37°C. Shade. Drinking water, unlimited. Six hours.

Combine temperature and humidity until the wet-bulb reading reaches 35°C. A 46°C day at 50% humidity will substitute. Place body in shade with water available. Allow to rest.

At saturation, sweat will not evaporate. Metabolic heat has nowhere to go. Core temperature climbs past 40°C. Organs fail in sequence. The shade and water are still there.

Serves one.

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