▲ | MarkusQ a day ago | ||||||||||||||||
Also (as I recall; it's been decades) there were solar powered fan heater things that used complicated equipment to do basically the same thing that just letting the sunlight hit the ground (or maybe some black plastic) would have. I recall there being a lot of things that just ignored basic thermodynamics. | |||||||||||||||||
▲ | hinkley a day ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Black bodies are tricky. What they readily absorb when the heat source is present, they will just as readily radiate back into the void when the source is missing. If you want to stay comfortable in a desert you wear white - keeps you cool in the day and warm at night. | |||||||||||||||||
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