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Nice they have a White 2.0 too since last year (up to 99.6% reflective). And as with Black 3.0 banned for Colour criminals ;).

skykooler 6y ago
If that's 99.6% reflective, how is this new paint the whitest ever at only 98%?
- loonster 6y ago
  Could be the spectrum that its tested under. Maybe the 99.6% is visible light and the 98% is all energy from sun. If that's the case, the 98% is much more impressive.
  - tux1968 6y ago
    From the thermal imaging results given in the article, i'd say your conjecture is correct.
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kube-system 6y ago
Of which, the picture of on the home page has clearly visible white text over it.... :D
robocat 6y ago
Colour criminals are defined as: WHY ARE THE COLOUR CRIMINALS BANNED? Anish Kapoor & the creators of Vantablack for hoarding the material and for generally being rotters. Dupont for the imprisonment of tech consultant Walter Liew for espionage, after he stole and sold blueprints for their secret titanium white process for over $30million. T-Mobile & its parent company Deutsche Telekom for claiming magenta as their own and suing small businesses for using it. Scientists at ISIS Neutron and Muon Source who are in the process of investigating polar bear fur, insect scales and fathers for industrial and commercial applications. 3M for their ownership of Canary Yellow. Daniel Smith, for buying up the last reserves of quinacridone Gold pigment in the world, so that only they would be able to sell it to artists. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-stealing-dupont-white/ https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-stealing-dupont-whit... https://sandrinemaugy.com/2018/04/30/the-final-batch-of-quinacridone-gold/ https://sandrinemaugy.com/2018/04/30/the-final-batch-of-quin...
- spiritplumber 6y ago
  Finding a commercial use for polar bear fur is awesome, actually. It would ensure that polar bears never go extinct.
  - legulere 6y ago
    Like how elephants were greatly reduced in numbers to make billiard balls?
    - spiritplumber 6y ago
      I'm more thinking like cows
      - arp242 6y ago
        Cows are fairly peaceful animals that naturally live in a herd and have been domesticated for thousands of years (people can get killed by cows, but it's rare). Bears are huge ferocious animals that typically live solitary lives and will kill you and your entire family while hardly breaking a sweat. Keeping polar bears "like cows" sounds like some good comedy sketch material.
        spiritplumber 6y ago
        Counterpoint: we did it with wolves.
        arp242 6y ago
        True, but this took thousands of years. We could domesticate descendents of polar bears, perhaps. But those would no longer be polar bears. Also, injuries and even deaths from dogs are still quite common, and polar bears (and their hypothetical domesticated descendents) are a lot stronger.
    - Godel_unicode 6y ago

skykooler 6y ago

If that's 99.6% reflective, how is this new paint the whitest ever at only 98%?

loonster 6y ago
Could be the spectrum that its tested under. Maybe the 99.6% is visible light and the 98% is all energy from sun. If that's the case, the 98% is much more impressive.
- tux1968 6y ago
  From the thermal imaging results given in the article, i'd say your conjecture is correct.
- deleted 6y ago
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kube-system 6y ago

Of which, the picture of on the home page has clearly visible white text over it.... :D

robocat 6y ago

Colour criminals are defined as: WHY ARE THE COLOUR CRIMINALS BANNED? Anish Kapoor & the creators of Vantablack for hoarding the material and for generally being rotters. Dupont for the imprisonment of tech consultant Walter Liew for espionage, after he stole and sold blueprints for their secret titanium white process for over $30million. T-Mobile & its parent company Deutsche Telekom for claiming magenta as their own and suing small businesses for using it. Scientists at ISIS Neutron and Muon Source who are in the process of investigating polar bear fur, insect scales and fathers for industrial and commercial applications. 3M for their ownership of Canary Yellow. Daniel Smith, for buying up the last reserves of quinacridone Gold pigment in the world, so that only they would be able to sell it to artists. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-stealing-dupont-white/ https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-stealing-dupont-whit... https://sandrinemaugy.com/2018/04/30/the-final-batch-of-quinacridone-gold/ https://sandrinemaugy.com/2018/04/30/the-final-batch-of-quin...

spiritplumber 6y ago
Finding a commercial use for polar bear fur is awesome, actually. It would ensure that polar bears never go extinct.
- legulere 6y ago
  Like how elephants were greatly reduced in numbers to make billiard balls?
  - spiritplumber 6y ago
    I'm more thinking like cows
    - arp242 6y ago
      Cows are fairly peaceful animals that naturally live in a herd and have been domesticated for thousands of years (people can get killed by cows, but it's rare). Bears are huge ferocious animals that typically live solitary lives and will kill you and your entire family while hardly breaking a sweat. Keeping polar bears "like cows" sounds like some good comedy sketch material.
      - spiritplumber 6y ago
        Counterpoint: we did it with wolves.
        arp242 6y ago
        True, but this took thousands of years. We could domesticate descendents of polar bears, perhaps. But those would no longer be polar bears. Also, injuries and even deaths from dogs are still quite common, and polar bears (and their hypothetical domesticated descendents) are a lot stronger.
  - Godel_unicode 6y ago