Except for far North, lighter color cars are usually better since absorb a little less heat. Also easier to see at night. Black might look cool but it is opposite and not usually in a good way. Encouraging this new material could be produced cost effectively. The current heat reflective paints for industrial roofs expensive relative to the modest benefit. Metal roofs usually silver already but no special heat reflection.
White roofs have been a thing for decades, extra white neither here nor there in reality because dirt, dust and UV rays degrading paint, so white good enough, extra white pretty pointless but hey how about bitumen, no more black bitumen but painting roads will make them slipperier, cost a lot and require continuing maintenance. Could require land owners to paint over the car parks, especially malls but hey large empty car parks for malls is already pretty dumb. They should have a concrete slab placed above
AC enables the new fashion for sloping windscreens that make them into glass houses. So now AC is not optional -- you need it to solve the problem that it caused.
And make sure you keep that sloping windscreen clean.
This paint is so white (Score:3, Funny)
That the GOP has made it their 2024 presidential candidate!
Cars etc (Score:4, Interesting)
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White roofs have been a thing for decades, extra white neither here nor there in reality because dirt, dust and UV rays degrading paint, so white good enough, extra white pretty pointless but hey how about bitumen, no more black bitumen but painting roads will make them slipperier, cost a lot and require continuing maintenance. Could require land owners to paint over the car parks, especially malls but hey large empty car parks for malls is already pretty dumb. They should have a concrete slab placed above
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Start putting town houses above car parks, every single mall world wide.
"She shops all the time...I swear it's like my wife LIVES at the mall."
"Dude, you have NO idea."
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The thing it makes sense to build over parking lots is solar power.
Putting buildings above them requires extensive and thus expensive support structures. Solar panels don't require quite so much structure.
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Cars get hot because of air conditioning.
AC enables the new fashion for sloping windscreens that make them into glass houses. So now AC is not optional -- you need it to solve the problem that it caused.
And make sure you keep that sloping windscreen clean.
Nothing to do with paint colour.