• Yllych [any]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    To put it plainly, shipping containers can get hot. Really hot. One study of wine shipments found that containers traveling between Australia and the US reached a maximum temperature of 122 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius) while at sea.[1]

    Another study conducted by engineers at Xerox found that temperatures in shipping containers on land can drop as low as -21ºF (-29ºC) and reach as high as 135 degrees Fahrenheit (57ºC).[2] The researchers found that the greatest temperature fluctuations occur on land, though containers traveling by sea are still subject to intense heat.

    https://epgna.com/how-hot-do-shipping-containers-get/

    • BoscoBear@lemmy.sdf.org
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      6 months ago

      Certainly they can get really hot in certain conditions. I do t think that is very relevant to the actual living conditions, but I have a small sample size. The ones I have seen have been pretty efficient.

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        6 months ago

        “Certain conditions” like “the sun being out”

        You don’t think the fact the internal temperature fluctuates between 125 and -21 degrees is relevant to living conditions?

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            I could say “this means the average temperature is a cool 45.5°.”

            I’m sure you could say that because saying incredibly stupid things doesn’t appear to be an issue for you at all.

            And yes I am interpreting “if a container sits in the sun it gets up to 120 degrees” to mean that if you leave a container sitting in the sun it will get up to 120 degrees. What are you suggesy8ng would cause these containers to behave differently from the ones tested. That’s the whole thing about containers, they’re all built to the same spec. Supposedly that’s why you morons think they’d be a good option ao it’s pretty funny for you to turn around and now act like that’s some weird outlier.