Joshua Cude <joshua.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is positive in that case, but it's not obvious that it's always > positive, because the way they choose the effective exponent is not given > quantitatively. The paper does not report trying the same thing at lower > emissivity like 0.2. > This is an *equation* for crying out loud. Not an experiment. You do not have to "try" anything. You just plug the number into the equation. The temperature is inversely proportional to the emissivity number. The close to zero, the higher the calculated temperature. They have it set to 1 which gives you the lowest possible calculated temperature. > And none of this says anything about objects that don't behave like grey > bodies. > Nothing can produce a lower temperature per unit of emissivity than a black body. Grey would be better than black, not worse. So, in the December experiment, the actual power is very uncertain, and not > necessarily conservative. It's sloppy work, plain and simple. > It cannot be more conservative than e=1. You do not understand arithmetic. - Jed
