Of course something can be blacker than its surroundings, but it can't "[absorb] all the radiation falling on it"* * Unless its a black hole, and even they are thought to emit Hawking radia… (View Post)

It's been a while since I did my physics PhD, but it certainly doesn't look like a genuine paper. A lot of it simply doesn't make sense. Take, for example, the statement, "It is a completely bla… (View Post)

Who knows what they're seeing? What they're writing is pseudo-scientific gibberish. (View Post)

AFAIK, no government has ever targeted lower economic growth, so I suppose the question we should be asking is what the government is targeting less in order to target economic growth more, and is th… (View Post)

It's almost physically painful listening to JRM talking about the caps in terms of pounds per megawatt. There's a bit of me itching to yell, "It's a megawatt-hour, you humanities-educated fool! … (View Post)