With the world continuing to warm up, scientists are busy working on ways of cooling buildings without using vast amounts of energy – such as the record-breaking, ultra-white cooling ceramic composite that's been developed by researchers from the City...
So would this work for like a regular house? Coating a roof tile with this stuff? Where does the reflected light go? Is it going to bounce off my roof and set my trees on fire?
Nah it’ll just harmlessly go up into space, where it’ll blind an airplane into crashing into your house.
Just gotta coat the trees in the same stuff
I don’t have the vocabulary to explain, but when they say these are very reflective, they mean reflective in a different way than a mirror is reflective. A mirror does not just reflect, it also projects? Does that make sense? There would be no Death Ray with a white colored lense.
I think you’re describing diffusion versus the typical reflection where all light continues in the same direction. In this case the light diffuses, scattering in every direction. Because of that scattering, no specific point will receive a significant amount of energy to burn anything.
Thank you! What a great teaching image, too.