Re: [Phys-l] paint your roof?

["Woolf, Lawrence" <Lawrence.Woolf@ga.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Lapinski" <Anthony_Lapinski@pds.org>
To: <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:30 AM
Subject: [Phys-l] paint your roof?
> Here's an interesting news item this morning: paint your roof white to
> reflect sunlight and save energy. This (and other changes) could have the
> equivalent effect of taking every car in the world off the road for 11
> years. That's an amazing claim.

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The justification is described in the following article:

<http://www.loe.org/images/090213/White%20Roofs%20Cool%20the%20World.pdf>

More details are at:
<http://coolcolors.lbl.gov/>
<http://heatisland.lbl.gov/>


Larry Woolf
General Atomics