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by derekp7 3214 days ago
If there is even a slight breeze blowing, then wouldn't that move enough of the heated humid air out of the way?
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No significant difference. The point is that the more opaque the air is to infrared, the more your panels are in thermal equilibrium with the surrounding air (ambient air temperature) rather than space (2.7K). They're in equilibrium with a weighted combination of those. Doesn't matter whether you heat up the surrounding air by 0.01 degrees.