Reflective roof coatings are a simple but effective way to reduce energy costs. Four products from Coat'N'Cool were recently awarded an Energy Star Rating for their performance. Yorba Linda, ...

Researchers from Australia’s Western Sydney University have created a reflective coating for solar tiles to reduce the operating temperatures of tiles by up to 11 C, while increasing their electrical ...

The heat is on and temperature records keep getting shattered. In June of this year, more than 60 percent of the world population faced extreme heat that was made at least three times more likely by ...

Cool colours: the hotter square on the left is coated in a single layer of black paint while the cooler square in the right is a black bilayer. (Courtesy: Jyotirmoy Mandal) A bilayer paint that can ...

White roofs are one of those climate solutions that sound too good to be true. Compared to solar panels and electric cars, painting the roof of a building white is a suspiciously cheap, analog way to ...

Renolit France, the French branch of the German provider of plastic films, sheets, and polymer-based products, Renolit, has unveiled a new reflective membrane for bifacial rooftop PV systems at the ...

Dec. 16 (UPI) --An all-season "smart roof" coating keeps homes warm during the winter and cool during the summer, without using natural gas or electricity, a study published Thursday in the journal ...

In this Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 file photo, a coating of Acrymax is applied to the roof of a rowhouse in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

A new superwhite paint is so reflective that it can cool a surface to below the surrounding air temperature, even under sunlight. It could help reduce the use of energy-intensive air conditioning in ...