"It really seems like anyone with some renders and a white paper written by someone being gassed up by an overly agreeable AI can get VC funding these days."
and sheesh you sure ain’t KIDDING! The amount of wattage in terms of thermal energy they’d have to radiate off would in fact LITERALLY require incandescence @.@;
for anyone else who stumbles across this comment section, i’m referring to “black body radiation” - it is specifically the thermal energy leaving something via radiating, and if it is radiating out at a high enough rate, that makes it glow. Even if we were not literally seeing the thermal radiation with our eyes, it is still technically incandescent in the infrared end of the spectrum!
(unless of course you’re defining incandescence as specifically only when the radiation reaches all the way up into the visible wavelengths and frequencies… which, if so, that’s quite fair really.)
and sheesh you sure ain’t KIDDING! The amount of wattage in terms of thermal energy they’d have to radiate off would in fact LITERALLY require incandescence @.@;
for anyone else who stumbles across this comment section, i’m referring to “black body radiation” - it is specifically the thermal energy leaving something via radiating, and if it is radiating out at a high enough rate, that makes it glow. Even if we were not literally seeing the thermal radiation with our eyes, it is still technically incandescent in the infrared end of the spectrum!
(unless of course you’re defining incandescence as specifically only when the radiation reaches all the way up into the visible wavelengths and frequencies… which, if so, that’s quite fair really.)