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Old 06-01-2015, 11:24 PM
sharpiel
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Originally Posted by clive milne View Post
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It relies on re-radiating thermal energy at the very specific colour (in the infrared) where the atmosphere is transparent. The mirror thus has a very low temperature to radiate to (the cosmic background). Thusly treated, an esky (outdoors) could dump it's heat into space, a fridge indoors would collect heat radiating from your ceiling.

It's the greenhouse effect in reverse.

very clever.
Radiating all our heat into space....a runaway cosmic background warming result. Better do it from Australia. Our government wont believe it exists
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