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Old 06-15-2025, 03:13 PM   #81 (permalink)
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I sprayed "cooling paint" on my desert cabin...this is shocking

TLDR; the part that is shocking is that he paid $330/gallon and only applied a single coat.

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Old 06-20-2025, 02:00 AM   #82 (permalink)
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He proposes using corrugated cardboard as a radiator!
I wouldn't trust a radiator made out of cardboard, yet it might not be the craziest thing I have ever seen.
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Water infiltration would be the Achilles heel. But his biodegradable waterproof coating (shellac flakes and beeswax) could be used to treat the inside.
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... it might not be the craziest thing I have ever seen.
Might the craziest thing you've seen be the: Boric Acid, dissolved in Water to form an ACID! tossed into engine oil!?
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Water infiltration would be the Achilles heel. But his biodegradable waterproof coating (shellac flakes and beeswax) could be used to treat the inside.
Why bother.
if you want a better, smaller, more aero radiator; Ionic wind = Corona Discharge negates the boundary layer on the outside. (and increases flow)
This would take a minor change in radiator design to implement both a push and pull effect, both negating boundary layer.

This study saw a 50% drop in temperatures from 60C to 30C using a std fan on top of ionic flow's boundary layer busting.
https://sci-hub.se/10.1063/1.2776164
(as you said: 'Obsess much'? Yes! and IT security is one of my (netw admin) 'things'! As is thorough research (and testing, for the more 'crazy' stuff) before opening my mouth
ie: You can be damn sure that I have run ANY/ALL possibly sus URLs past VirusTotal.
This one gets one orange flag. A check shows it to be for 'plagiarism'. (ye right!)
Then there's intriguing lowering of surface tension and increase in conductivity of magnetic field treated water car makers (with the budget) could experiment with.
(I think/guess that the variance magnetic field research results may have a lot to do with the, by chance, interaction/orientation relative to the Earth's magnetic field. .?
One thing one cannot ignore is that there are lasting effects at an atomic level like electron spin, as used in MRIs, for a start!

Another thing: All the aero knowledge seems to fly out the window 'because it's a radiator'.
'Outside the box!' thinking is where every major breakthrough started! (like it or not!)
It's like the education system etc was specially designed to discourage it!?
Good thing the Wright Brothers never listened to Professor Simon Newcomb and Lord Kelvin..!


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