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(Fwd) Re: [80] About colors.... [CHAT]

  • From: "Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>
  • Subject: (Fwd) Re: [80] About colors.... [CHAT]
  • Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 19:59:12 +0000
FWIW, trom an automotive mailinglist, about heat & paint colors:

(Btw, yesterday I watched a docu on Discovery channel, where they 
pointed out that eagles had good UV vision....main application: spotting 
the UV-reflective trails of urine from mice(!))

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Date:          Thu, 09 Apr 1998 07:11:06 -0600
To:            80_series@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From:          Bill Ferreira <billferreira@xxxxxxx>
Subject:       Re: [80] About colors.... [CHAT]
Reply-to:      80_series@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

At 05:21 AM 4/9/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>Forest Green is pretty, but hotter than black (see Ford's study, circa
1993 or so).
>
>My truck is green and it IS hot as hell.  (I had to put on dark,
>titanium impregnated tint.)  
>
>Where can I read the report from Ford?  Black is supposed to absorb all
>spectrums, so why isn't black hotter?
>

Check with the folks who research colors for solar panels, they also
researched the "whys" and not just the "whats" as did Ford. But it's true
enough about green out absorbing black, something to do with the spectrum
of old Sol's light.

Bill
Ferreira Consulting, Inc.
billferreira@xxxxxxx



- -- 
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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