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Old 04-29-2024, 02:49 PM   #23 (permalink)
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1) It's at ?t=628. Ultrawhite paint is 88.6%, a silvered mirror is 89.5%.

2) Don't know

3) [citation needed]

4) Disagree. It's reflecting the heat load rather than cooling it.

The part significant to me is the mechanism, a three part precursor, a phase inversion, then washing one part, sintering away the other leaving an aluminum aerogel.

The resulting aluminum plate is white because of it's nanoscale structure not pigment. I suspect it's similar to the vacuum airship 'tic-tac' drones the Navy pilots are reporting offshore of California and Florida.
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