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Old 04-22-2009, 09:02 PM   #27 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Christ View Post
Ok, wait until the hottest day you can, and get a friend with a lighter car. Put a thermometer in his car, and yours, in the same place, out of the sun.

Park them both in a parking lot in the sun, right next to each other.

Come back in like 4 hours. If there is more than a 2% difference in the temps, and you can repeat that effect over 3 or more tests, I'll call the EPA a bunch of morons.

*I've actually done this, back when I used to call them a bunch of morons.. now I call them scientifically correct morons.*

The fact that you can burn your hand by touching hot metal does not make it true that your interior is any hotter.
Would be interested in seeing how this was done, as well as the results... Was temp taken only twice, once at the start and once at the end? Or was it taken "continuously" over the 4 hours (like every 5 or 10 mins)?

Curious if the rate of temp increase is equal between the two colors... does make sense that after some amount of time they'd equalize.

Of course, perception is sometimes good enough too.
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