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Comment by nickparker

Active vacuum insulation isn’t a thing because you need high vacuum to reduce thermal conductivity at all, because mean free path and therefore specific conductivity grows at the same rate density decreases until mean free path exceeds the characteristic length of your application.

Also, modern VIPs have decades of life if installed properly.

parent nickparker 3 years ago

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