--- In help_@yahoogroups.com, TexasT <terry.texast@...> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Herbert Eppel<Herb@...> wrote:
> >
> > My reasoning is this: if the house is burgled while
> > I'm out and the thief takes the PC and the laptop,
> > I can simply buy a new PC or laptop and carry on
> > working almost instantly.
> .
> You and Sue obviously don't live in Texas, where temperatures inside a
> parked car can easily reach 140 degrees F or higher, depending on
> ambient temperature. Temps that high really aren't good for gadgets...
>
> <<Stanford University School of Medicine conducted a study to measure
> the temperature rise inside a parked car on sunny days with highs
> ranging from 72 to 96 degrees F. Their results showed that a car's
> interior can heat up by an average of 40 degrees F within an hour,
> regardless of ambient temperature. Ambient temperature doesn't matter
> – it's whether it's sunny out. Eighty percent of the temperature rise
> occurred within the first half-hour. Even on a relatively cool day,
> the temperature inside a parked car can quickly spike to
> life-threatening levels if the sun is out.
>
> Further, the researchers noted that much like the sun warms a
> greenhouse in winter; it also warms a parked car on cool days. In both
> cases, the sun heats up a mass of air trapped under glass. Precautions
> such as cracking a window or running the air conditioner prior to
> parking the car were found to be inadequate.>>
> <http://bullmarketfrogs.com/blog/?p=1578>
>
> --
> Terry
>
Fascinating, but I think my USB will be fine in the car - I live in the Emerald
Isle, renowned for its beauty and its rain! Sunshine is not something we have
too much of in Ireland.

And Herbert's reasoning matches my own - if my PC and laptop go belly up for
whatever reason (burglary, fire) then I can get going again fairly quickly.

Sue