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Originally Posted by yagiz
Last week I was on holidays and I did a lot of reading on the beach and most of the time under the sun. And yesterday, when I was watching the Discovery Channel, they were experimenting with two different surfaces, one black and one white. They put them both under the sun with an initial temperature of 27C (80F) and pretty soon the difference was impressive with the black surface gone to 48C (118F). So, I think, the dark blue will get hotter under the sun...  |
It depends far more on the reflectivity of the surface than its colour - matt surfaces absorb (and radiate) heat much more efficiently than shiny ones. Very few of us bother to paint our central-heating radiators black, and even if you did, it really wouldn't make that much difference to their efficiency.
Given that the Reader has a somewhat shiny metallic surface, it shouldn't have too much of a problem in sunlight.