Healthy dose of go pedal and burnt rubber, maybe lol

Wait, are you saying that garbage collection zeros deleted blocks?

Ok. So then the answer isn't incorrect. OP used a word incorrectly and the answer used that word the same way OP did.

This is misleading. TRIM does not immediately "clear" ie "set to 0" deleted pages. They simply mark them as "do not collect" for garbage collection. This way, when the GC algorithm runs, it doesn't copy over the useless pages to new blocks. However, afaik, SSDs never actually destroy deleted pages unless overwritten by new data.

To save time. Hard disk writes take forever, and the disk has better things to do than overwrite deleted data.

SSD overwrites would increase wear on the flash. You have a limited number of writes before the flash starts becoming unstable.

Just... take a hammer to it. They're hardly expensive.

nmxt is using "memory" the same way OP is: to refer to storage. Technically, storage is a type of memory. Not all memory is RAM.

That's an extrapolation that whoever wrote the article made.

Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014050

I didn't see it in the paper it cited. Show me a published paper that says that.

EDIT;

actually, you're probably right. It looks like those might be quotes from the paper. My bad

That's not what the abstract says at all. It says that places that get really cold like Minneapolis spend more energy than places like Miami, where it's livable year-round. That's where the 3.5x number comes from. I'll read the paper later when I have time, but I'm still standing by what I said.

"This finding suggests that, in the US, living in cold climates is more energy demanding than living in hot climates."

I'm open to evidence that shows I'm wrong. It'd have to be something like "it takes x% more energy to raise the temperature of a home by 1 degree than to reduce it by 1 degree".

Heating is way more efficient than cooling, so on average, this is still better. And the thermal energy lost through glass at night is significant. You lose heat from the building via radiation. If this coating keeps heat out, it'll keep heat in too.

EDIT: see comment thread below. Cooling might be more efficient than heating, so it actually would be better to let as much heat in as possible during the day during winter.