Even if you live in a hot area, a green roof will bring a cooling effect to your surroundings. Green roofs reduce the heat flux from your roof by up to 72% on hot days.

Buildings with rooftop areas smaller than 50 square metres were excluded from the analysis. Studies in the past have ...

Scientists in the Netherlands have assessed how the so-called blue-green roofs can help reduce the operating temperature of rooftop PV panels and have found they provide a significant cooling effect.

The cooling effect A ... In summer, nearly 50 per cent of the radiation is on the roof, with the balance being distributed almost equally between the east and west walls.

No passive home cooling effect like with solar panels, which add shade to the roof and reduce heat transfer from the sun into the house. The Future of Solar Roof Shingles ...

Researchers have analyzed how wind speed and direction affect the cooling of a rooftop PV plant with 10,806 panels. They say that winds from behind were less effective due to the roof slope and ...

Boston University researchers found that planting about 2,500 trees and installing 3,000 “cool roofs” could bring relief to ...

For the cooling effect to work, the light has to pass through the air and into deep space. That happens only at wavelengths known as the infrared atmospheric window, or sky window, most of which ...

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Scientists at Purdue have created a white paint that, when applied, can reduce the surface temperature on a roof and cool the building beneath it. By Cara Buckley Xiulin Ruan, a professor of ...