He usually garbles the scientific theory in his videos, but I trust that he's honestly reporting his experiments, and that his theoretical errors are honest mis

He usually garbles the scientific theory in his videos, but I trust that he's honestly reporting his experiments, and that his theoretical errors are honest mistakes rather than intentional attempts to mislead. You should be aware that there are rigorous constraints on how much absorptance can differ from emittance, known as Kirchhoff's Law of Thermal Radiation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissivity#Absorptance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissivity#Absorptance because without them you could get mechanical power generation from a uniform bath of thermal radiation, which would give you a perpetual-motion machine.