News tagged with roofs
Color-changing roof tiles absorb heat in winter, reflect it in summer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has ever stepped barefoot onto blacktop pavement on a hot sunny day knows the phenomenon very well: Black surfaces absorb the sun's heat very efficiently, producing a toe-scorching ...
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Global model confirms: Cool roofs can offset carbon dioxide emissions and mitigate global warming
(PhysOrg.com) -- Can light-colored rooftops and roads really curb carbon emissions and combat global climate change? The idea has been around for years, but now, a new study by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley ...
Jul 19, 2010 |
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Urban 'heat island' effect is a small part of global warming; white roofs don't reduce it
Cities release more heat to the atmosphere than the rural vegetated areas around them, but how much influence these urban "heat islands" have on global warming has been a matter of debate. Now a study by Stanford researchers ...
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Sharp to sell solar power systems applicable to various roofs
Sharp Corp. said Tuesday it will release a home-use solar power generation system in April that can be installed on a wide range of roof shapes with various roof surface areas.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 03, 2009 |
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Computer model demonstrates that white roofs may successfully cool cities
Painting the roofs of buildings white has the potential to significantly cool cities and mitigate some impacts of global warming, a new study indicates. The research, which is the first computer modeling study to simulate ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 01, 2010 |
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Solar panels keep buildings cool
Those solar panels on top of your roof aren't just providing clean power; they are cooling your house, or your workplace, too, according to a team of researchers led by Jan Kleissl, a professor of environmental ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jul 18, 2011 |
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BASF, Philips develop OLED lighting for use as transparent car roof
(PhysOrg.com) -- BASF and Philips have achieved a practical breakthrough in the development of OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) technology that allows it to be integrated in car roofs. The OLEDs are transparent ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 19, 2012 |
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How does your green roof garden grow?
Growing plants on rooftops is an old concept that has evolved from simple sod roofing to roof gardens and new, lightweight "extensive green roofs". Modern green roofs have environmental and social benefits; they can reduce ...
Dec 29, 2010 |
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Natural Fusion: Solar-powered home designed for 'realities of life'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Long cylinders wrapped in a thin dark blue film rest atop a newly constructed home in Central Pennsylvania. Beneath the cylinders is vegetation. The arrangement is not only the engine that ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 23, 2009 |
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'Green' roofs may help put lid on global warming
"Green" roofs, those increasingly popular urban rooftops covered with plants, could help fight global warming, scientists in Michigan are reporting.
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Science looks to poplar trees for 'cool roof' technology
(PhysOrg.com) -- For as long as humans have been able to reason, they have mimicked nature in attempts to derive benefits for themselves; and just because we’ve become ultra-high tech in many ways, it ...
Mar 21, 2011 |
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Maryland Farmer grows plants for green roofs around nation
It is a crisp fall day on Emory Knoll Farms as John Shepley stops at a raspberry bush, picks a few berries and pops them into his mouth on his walk to the greenhouses.
Dec 02, 2009 |
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ACS podcast: Grow a garden on your roof to battle climate change
"Green" roofs, those increasingly popular urban rooftops covered with plants, could help fight global warming, scientists in Michigan report in the latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS) award-winning podcast ...
Oct 19, 2009 |
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New 'smart' roof reads the thermometer, saves energy in hot and cold climates
Top a building with a light-colored "cool roof," and it reflects sunlight, cutting air conditioning bills in summer, but increasing winter heating costs. Choose black shingles, and the roof soaks up sunlight ...
Mar 22, 2010 |
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Efficacy of cool roofs varies from city to city
(PhysOrg.com) -- While cool roofs and pavements have been found to cool the planet by preventing energy from being radiated back into the atmosphere, previous studies have not accounted for atmospheric feedbacks ...
Jul 27, 2011 |
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