• peopleproblems@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Hmmm. Problem I see with that is the thermal blanket reflects IR away from itself, so if you are inside of it, you still heat up.

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      20 hours ago

      Yes, and that keeps the warmth inside the tent, so that it’s not visible to IR from the outside.

      You can test it first if you have an IR lens. If you’re handy with solder you can build one with parts from arduino, mouser or similar

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        19 hours ago

        Oh, I meant that it essentially gets hotter over time. If you’re on the move, that could become a problem pretty fast

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          18 hours ago

          Oh yeah, I was thinking if you had to hide a whole base of operations, command post, resupply depot, or sentinel outpost.

          If you’re on the move in a scenario like this, then you’d need to have some means of taking down a drone, and hope to high hell you won’t need to use it.

          Mud is a decent insulator so you could smear yourself with that. In the winter you could wear quilted fabrics under a windbreaker. Basically the more insulation keeping the cold off your skin, the more it’s keeping your body heat from being visible to IR.

          I also think glass blocks heat radiation to some degree, so maybe using that as some type of parasol or shield, but that might be less feasible. Lining an umbrella with a survival blanket might be possible, but again test it with your own IR lens to be sure