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The Personal Environment
A personal environment would be a means of maintaining the temperature surrounding an individual's body... rather than heating or cooling a room or building. It would move with the individual. It may also offer protection from the conditions outside the body.
We need to contact Elon Musk so he can offer an X-prize.




I know most of us would think of a "suit" of some type, but perhaps there is a way to have a projective "atmosphere" for a body just as the earth does.
We'd need some pretty ridiculous individual gravitational pull to hold onto an individual atmosphere that did anything remotely sense-able. Plus, it'd be really hard to see us through the clouds that surround. A suit is more controlled. Use something that's already bounded to capture/maintain the energy, otherwise you're re-inventing way too many wheels, some of which are Escher-esque aka impossible.
It just seems like you're talking about clothes. For the sake of discussion, what's the gap here between what's commercially offered in the world of the wardrobe and what you're proposing?
I am guessing that someone has an idea that neither of us have ever thought of.
I know that the human body already has measurable fields surrounding it.
Absolutely has fields around it. However, a personal atmosphere requires a field of exponential strength and complexity. The ROI isn't there.