- 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. 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
- 7. 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
- 8. 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
- 9. Reflective Roofs Can Reduce Overheating in Cities and Save Lives During Heatwaves
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- A new modelling study from the University of Oxford and collaborators has estimated how changing the reflectivity of roofs can help keep cities cooler during heatwaves and reduce heat-rated mortality rates. ...
- Created on 05 April 2019
- 10. Study finds that Choice of Cool Roofing Materials can Potentially Impact Region's Air Pollution ...
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- In a groundbreaking study released today, scientists at the South Coast Air Quality Management District and the University of Southern California have found that widespread installation of certain “cool ...
- Created on 08 August 2017
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