wowf1 wrote:ie. black matt surface=good dissipation/absorption of radiation, chrome=poor at both.
Which is a good thing. Chrome's bad absorption of radiation, I mean.
I know you knew that, just had to point it out since your wording made it sound as if it was a bad thing. Or maybe I'm just tired. Anyway.
The effects wouldn't be too grand. It's the same as the story about painting the nose of the car black, making it go faster. Since the black color absorbs heat and heats up and creates an underpressure zone at the front, sucking the car forward.
Has anyone heard the one that putting bigger wheels at the back means the car is constantly travelling downhill, making it move forward by itself? I think it was called Ackermann's law or something like that.
I guess what I'm saying is, though I'm not quite sure myself at this point anymore either, is that you can get mixed up thinking too theoretically, and that you should take into account a little thing called the real world. Not everything that looks ok on the paper works in the real world.
This is a general word of caution to everyone, and has nothing to do with what I first set off to write about.
I'm rambling now, so I'll stop.
