Everybody knows that GORE-TEX technologies make for textiles that are waterproof, windproof, and breathable — or at least you should by now. But how that technology works is a different mystery entirely. Rather than being an impermeable membrane, the surface of a GORE-TEX membrane is actually porous. More @Wikipedia
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