A solar heating panel is used to heat water, why is the top surface painted black?????

Question

A solar heating panel is used to heat water, why is the top surface painted black?????

Answer 1

If coloured brightly it would reflect the heat away, were black just soaks it up.

Answer 2

Black absorbs heat the best

Answer 3

Because of the albedo effect, dark surfaces absorb heat, and light surfaces reflect heat.

Answer 4

To absorb the heat.

White would reflect it

Answer 5

the top of the heating panel is covered in black paint as the black paint attracts the sun to the heating panels!!

this is beause black attracts heat/sun..

Answer 6

Black absorbs and radiates heat and light the best as it doesn't reflect any colours and technically we only see it because its a void that our eyes can't see well unless shiny coated. Strange how radiators are White?

Answer 7

Black is the best colour for absorbing heat.

A shiny surface would reflect a lot of the heat away.

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