Ask Slashdot: Large-Scale DIY Outdoor Cooling of Cairo's Tahrir Square?

ClimateHacker writes "The struggle for freedom is still ongoing in Egypt and one of the many challenges that face the demonstrators in Tahrir Square is the sweltering heat. Skies are mostly clear and temperatures can reach up to 44 degrees Celsius (111 F) with hardly any shade. The risk of life-threatening heat stroke is quite real. I ask clever Slashdotters out there for novel DIY passive and active ambient cooling techniques. Perhaps some ideas could be a model for saving energy on cooling elsewhere."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Why the fuck does your Western arse think it is smarter then the people who have lived in those climates for at least the past thousand years?

Because we have air conditioning, internet and Haagen-Daaz and they still live on dirt floors kissing their cousins' camel?

Get a job in an air conditioned office

[Rogerborg]

And be part of the solution, you lazy smelly hippies.