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Dil fridge will get a bit hot with its clothes off like that

• MengerSponge 10mo ago
  Either IBM has cracked optically transparent coatings that cycle from 300 to 1K repeatedly and acrylic that has a metal's thermal conductivity, or it's a sham. Really hard to tell which it could be.
  • volemo 10mo ago
    > optically transparent coatings that cycle from 300 to 1K repeatedly and acrylic that has a metal's thermal conductivity I believe that still wouldn’t work because optical part of the spectrum carries thermal energy too.
    • MengerSponge 10mo ago
      Oh hush, you're not going to nerd snipe me into doing the thermal flux calculations today. Optical photons don't carry an impossible amount of energy: I've seen liquid helium through a small coated window. The window was there for ion beam purposes, not "entertaining the grad student", and it was a big element in the heat budget!