This post is to you, whether you post it on your site is up to you. I need to clarify a few things and please understand that I am a very qualified first response consultant. I provide science for professionals, I don’t work and look for any corporate angles. How else could I lecture in academia?

I like your Part 42 and respect your professionalism for educating your own industry on errors they are making in temperature measurement. I saw your thermal image at the top of the page showing solar exposure on buildings. While weather is your area of expertise, building engineering and their energy consumption is mine. Why is one side of your building image colder than the solar exposed side? By your image, it was an 8 to 10 degree C time of day but the solar exposed side is close to 30 C. The building is generating heat before the building absorbs it.

Your weather thermometer for measuring temperature is white for reflecting solar radiation? What if it was dark absorbent colors?

The building industry is signed off as compliant, not verified. Because we have changed it into an economy, people can go and paint their building exteriors any pretty color they want. All solar radiation interaction with materials is different because of their wavelength and absorbent material polarizing at that speed generates heat. That heat transfers and we are treating the indoor symptoms. California is being knocked off the electrical grid treating symptoms and generating toxins detrimental to health.

When I referenced Obama missing critical data, it isn’t political. Myself and health associates have faxed the Whitehouse asking for an audience based on urgent environmental/health concerns.

Seeing the way weather is monitored isn’t reflecting urban interaction and we are generating extreme heat on the surface of the planet. Why are we talking about heat trapping gases while each building can be generating heat close to boiling temperature on the surface of the planet? Every new building is a heatsink and we are professionally responding to the symptoms with toxin, superheated air, ozone depletion(refrigeration called A/C)

Last year I imaged buildings in 6 provinces and 23 states, solar radiation is beating the hell out of the surface of the planet and when we expose the surface by removing ground cover, it generates heat all year.

I have information you need and looking forward to sharing it for science. I am lecturing medical professionals on the domino effect of all of this into our bodies where it is causing them problems neurologically.

Thanks

I wanted you to know that someone gave me the pictures of weather stations without any reference material supporting where they came from. I wouldn’t have represented anything that was part of an online report such as part 42 and I have changed the content of my website and included a link to your reporting on part 42. Please take a look and let me know if it is acceptable as I have it now or I will remove it if required.

I like your objective information and would like to offer you some information except in a pdf format with scales, emissivities, etc. I have an extensive library of solar radiation impact morning, noon or night over several seasons of several years. What is your interest? Different colors of finishes, shade effect, riparian areas, different development, before and after rainfall, UV on people, generating heat in winter or below freezing days?

Send me an email address where I can attach pdfs and tell me what you want to see. Thanks

There’s little doubt in my mind that the UHI is poorly named. The effect is really a combination of locally generated heat and the thermal characteristics of the built environment. Hell, if I touch the brick wall of my house 3 hours after summer sunset it can still be very warm.

This is an area of Electronics on a PCB. It is from outside the area of interest and consequently when the PCB was spray painted with grey acrilic primer ( found to give an excellent standardisation of emissivity!) it was insufficiently covered.

Note that the end caps of the surface mount components shows as cooler than the component. Note also that the hot component has heated the PCB at the soldered joint but that the end cap is still cooler than all surroundings – obviously incorrect.

This is caused by the reflective metalisation of the endcaps reflecting ambient/nearby cooler sources.

Mike

I have a friend who built a lovely straw bale cottage up near St. Ig. in Montana. It was snug and warm in the winter and cool and comfy in the summer. I also have friends with yurts, but the straw bale cottage is the best non-western-frame construction I’ve seen, especially when evaluated in terms of energy efficiency.

I built a super-insulated log house on my farm (with a metal roof to reduce the snow load). Not as efficient as the straw bale cottage, but logs were actually cheaper that year than good straw, and I can always lift the trusses and add another story above the logs.

For one of the very few times in a Bond film, Zao’s Jaguar XKR is on par with James Bonds Aston Martin V12 Vanquish. While Bonds Aston Martin contains a variety of gadgetry, Zao takes the lead in his Jaguar that is fitted with a host of different weaponry.
In an exiting chase across the frozen wastes of Iceland, Bond and Zao battle it out in perhaps one of the best car chases seen in a Bond film.
Zao does battle with Bond using a THERMAL IMAGING SYSTEM allowing him to track the Aston Martin when its using its Adaptive Camouflage; this quickly malfunctions after Zao pumps rounds into the Aston using the Gattling Gun that pops up in the back of the car underneath a Jaguar seal. Armed with mini-missiles hidden under the front grille, rockets hidden in the doors and high explosive mortar bombs launched from the boot, Bond meets his match with the Jaguar XKR. The chase continues into Gustav Graves’ flooding ice palace, where it appears Bond is beaten when he is trapped high above in the palace. Using another feature of the Jaguar, Zao activates a metal ramming device, in a hope to send Bond’s Aston Martin flying into the lake below. However, Bond manages to activate the now restored Adaptive Camouflage, engage spikes in the Aston’s tyres for more traction and drives up the wall, sending Zao driving straight into the lake below.

I’m not interested in these issues being discussed here. Please don’t post on them again.

Anthony

The pictures illustrate some aspects of the urban heat island very nicely.

I don’t mean to be attacking you, but there are some things I would change, if no one could convince me they weren’t wrong. For example, unless you are using the term “generate” by a convention I’m not familiar with, then the term is used incorrectly. Since Energy emitted is equal to, not greater than, energy absorbed, there is no “generation” of heat: solar energy “retained” locally as heat would seem to me to be more correct.

“This is accurate temperature information and we have been tested and proven. It is accurate to +-2% and verifiable as well as traceable to specific pieces of equipment.”

A lot of material at a low temperature can contain a lot more heat than a very small amount at a much higher temperature. Do you then try to quantify the heat as well, because temperature by itself isn’t enough information?

Hey, just look at this as practice for your presentation.

If the equipment manufacturers were doing a good job, this technology would be mainstream but it is the applications that exceed their expertise.