- 1. Cool Roofs Can Help Shield California’s Cities Against Heat Waves ...
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- ... the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) shows that if every building in California sported “cool” roofs by 2050, these roofs would help contribute to protecting ...
- Created on 14 August 2019
- 2. Urban Heat: Can White Roofs Help Cool World’s Warming Cities? ...
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- ... aggressive local geoengineering to maintain our cool grows. Summers in the city can be extremely hot — several degrees hotter than in the surrounding countryside. But recent research indicates that ...
- Created on 19 March 2018
- 3. Cool Roofs Have Water Saving Benefits Too ...
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- The energy and climate benefits of cool roofs have been well established: By reflecting rather than absorbing the sun’s energy, light-colored roofs keep buildings, cities, and even the entire planet cooler. ...
- Created on 20 October 2017
- 4. Newly engineered material can cool roofs, structures with zero energy consumption ...
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- ... conditioning system for structures. It has the ability to cool objects even under direct sunlight with zero energy and water consumption. When applied to a surface, the metamaterial film cools the object ...
- Created on 15 February 2017
- 5. Newly engineered material can cool roofs, structures with zero energy consumption ...
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- ... conditioning system for structures. It has the ability to cool objects even under direct sunlight with zero energy and water consumption. A team of University of Colorado Boulder engineers has developed ...
- Created on 09 February 2017
- 6. Study Finds Fungal-Rich Soil May Improve Green Roofs
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- ... buildings, and cool neighborhoods, tempering urban heat islands while also creating urban habitats for plants, pollinators, and wildlife. But, in the U.S., green roofs are typically planted with non-native ...
- Created on 31 January 2024
- 7. This Adaptive Roof Tile Can Cut Both Heating and Cooling Costs ...
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- About half of an average American building’s energy consumption is spent on heating and cooling. About half of an average American building’s energy consumption is spent on heating and cooling. That’s ...
- Created on 14 December 2023
- 8. Creating Cooler Cities ...
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- Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering used a Computational Fluid Dynamics model to find ways to decrease cost and increase usage of cooler surfaces. Researchers ...
- Created on 22 June 2021
- 9. White Roofs and More Green Areas Would Mitigate the Effects of Heat Waves in Cities
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- ... de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) assesses the effectiveness of solutions such as the creation of cool (white) roofs on the buildings and the expansion of urban green areas in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB). ...
- Created on 21 May 2021
- 10. Can’t Take the Heat? ‘Cool Walls’ Can Reduce Energy Costs, Pollution ...
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- ... sunlight-reflecting “cool” exterior walls can save as much or more energy than sunlight-reflecting cool roofs. Cool walls are generally considered to have a higher-than-average solar reflectance – which ...
- Created on 11 July 2019