Analysis
of phase - change
materials showed that they work because
of a particular
kind of chemical bonding, called resonant bonding — a type
of bond in which electrons flip back and forth between
several adjacent atoms.
Why It Matters:
Materials that are both electrically conductive and optically transparent are needed for more efficient solar cells, light detectors, and
several kinds of electronic devices that are by nature transparent to visible light.
So it seems to me that the simple way
of communicating a complex problem has led to
several fallacies becoming fixed in the discussions
of the real problem; (1) the Earth is a black body, (2) with no
materials either surrounding the systems or in the systems, (3) in radiative energy transport equilibrium, (4) response is chaotic solely based on extremely rough appeal to temporal - based chaotic response, (5) but at the same time exhibits trends, (6) but at the same time averages
of chaotic response are not chaotic, (7) the mathematical model is a boundary value problem yet it is solved in the time domain, (8) absolutely all that matters is the incoming radiative energy at the TOA and the outgoing radiative energy at the Earth's surface, (9) all the physical phenomena and processes that are occurring between the TOA and the surface along with all the
materials within the subsystems can be ignored, (10) including all other activities
of human
kind save for our contributions
of CO2 to the atmosphere, (11) neglecting to mention that if these were true there would be no problem yet we continue to expend time and money working on the problem.