Mark Eatherton...........

Ernie

How much greater heat output for a given temperature would you get, if you painted fin type aluminum/copper convectors elm leaf green ground to 2 micron thickness, and is it worth doing?

ScottMP

Ernie

You have WAY to much time on your hands

Scott

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Jim Erhardt

Paint?

Ernie, are we talking enamel or latex?

kk_2

The studies I've read...

would indicate that maple leaf green is much more effective than elm leaf green. However, some of the studies are suspect because it appears that the paint was applied inside out.

ScottMP

I think

that was a Canadian study

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Ernie

Paint

I don't know, hopeing ME could shed some light on this as he posted on Jan 27,2002 flat green or black works great,but did not indicate enamel or laytex. I could assume but had better not.

Ernie

Time

Deleteing the time bank day by day, but its great to be alive.

Mr. Bill

Maple leaf

They work better because they fall off in the winter in the North Country.

Mark Eatherton1

The information

came from George Lof, an instructor from LONG ago. It had to do with solar panel absorptivity, the inverse of emmissivity. It affected the absorptivity of a flat plate solar panel by 2/10 of 1 percent.

Hardly worth the trouble, just kind of interesting to note...

ME