>>1696403Engineer here. Sorry to say, but what you wrote is mostly bullshit.
>when the atmospheric pressure is low enough, the wind blows fast enough or the surface area is large enough, the sweat evaporatesNone of these factors decide whether sweat evaporates, they only influence how fast it does. The only important deciding factor is whether the air is saturated with moisture or not (partial pressure H2O <> steam pressure).
>So if your clothing has high surface area(like wool does)somewhat true
>breathable from the base to the exterior(like most wool garments are)true
>the heat from your body drives the moisture outwardunless your body is boiling hot and generates steam pressure, what actually sucks the moisture outwards are capillary effects inside and betwen the fibres. Wool does this well due to it's high specific surface and the fact that it's fibres don't clump together when they're wet (as cotton does).
>it evaporates, both regulating your temperaturetrue
>and drying your clothesPossible in theory, but unlikely. As the sweat evaporates, the cooling influence decreases, causing your body to heat up and sweat more.
>The same principles are applied in home constructionNot unless you're looking at it in an extremely basic manner. Most importantly, houses aren't supposed to have liquid water on the inside of the insulation, so their insulations aren't designed to wick either. Instead, they keep liquid moisture out (and in) and only let steam through.
>Praise Lord Lstiburek.Never heard of that guy before. Is he the slav equivalent of Mollier or something?
