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Originally Posted by Albert Viar
Hello Iceinspace enthusiasts,
During a showing of the building of an infrared space telescope, I observed the announcer to say, "Gold reflects infrared". There are tiny bits of gold in many things electronic. Perhaps coating a satellite dish with a conductive coat and doing a bit of gold plating using the electronic fittings and computer card conductors as the gold source. I'll bet there would be no hand waving in front of such a dish.
Albert Viar
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Hi Albert;
This is do-able .. gold reflects infrared radiation strongly.
According to Wiki, a single gram can be beaten into a sheet of about 1 square meter.
Handling it might be a problem though, and you still need to glue it onto something parabolic, (or similar), in shape.
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