Thursday, February 16, 2017

Newly engineered material can cool roofs, structures with zero energy consumption

Image result for great ideaNewly engineered material can cool roofs, structures with zero energy consumption | CU Boulder Today | University of Colorado Boulder:
"A team of University of Colorado Boulder engineers has developed a scalable manufactured metamaterial — an engineered material with extraordinary properties not found in nature — to act as a kind of air 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 underneath by efficiently reflecting incoming solar energy back into space while simultaneously allowing the surface to shed its own heat in the form of infrared thermal radiation..."

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