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Smart Glass Blocks Infrared - But Only When It's Hot
klevin writes "New Scientist has an article about a new way of making sheets of glass so they block infrared energy at temperatures above 29C (84.2F). Just so long as it doesn't have to get that hot on both sides of the glass. My AC comes on way before 84F. I suppose that with double or triple paned glass, you'd only treat the exterior pane."
This will severely hamper my illicit recordings of my neighbors having sex using my hidden wireless camera.
How's that yellow tint going to look
Oh, that's easy, the opposite of yellow is blue, just use blue glass!
Cool!
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
Next step is glass that turns transparent to visible light when it's hot, for example, a bathroom window what turns transparent when a hot woman (or a hot man) gets on the other side...
Yellow tint, ew, but as for the Vanadium, if you have a double paned window, treat the inner side of the outer pane. No leakage or exposure to Vanadium, unless you break the glass. And no exposure to H2S rain.
If you've got heat coming through the walls, just get some old-fashioned IR reflectors -- Aluminum Foil! Put it up to reflect heat away from your walls, and maybe an old fan to blow the heat off of it. Oh, and ripple it. Your very own House Heat Sink. Overclock your house!
Moo.
Sweet, now I won't feel so bad when I leave Grandma in the car on a hot day with the windows rolled up.
I'm Rick James with mod points biatch!
Usually it's that heavy stuff that can withstand the direct impact of a pigeon (no sparrow jokes, please.)
Good firewall against IP by carrier pigeon.
As a side benefit you won't have to wear your tin foil hat inside anymore!
May the source be with you!
Sure you could make the environemental control costs lower, but then Snake Plissken would have to save the President from the King of New York.
It's just not worth it.
And since you're thinking it, that means they already got you. You're compromised. We can't have you at the meetings anymore. Er, I mean, what meetings?
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Around here, all the drivers seem to be using a window tint that makes it hard to distinguish red from green.
an alarm system which cracks windows/sunroof slightly in hot weather BUT senses things like rain ... or a criminal's fingers
Or a cat's head
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