Comments on: Is White the New Green?

By: Anonymous User

Anonymous User — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:57:03 +0000

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By: williams thom

williams thom — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:01:11 +0000

They were not the first to come up with this idea, check out this link:http://thom.us.com/grant/

By: matt morrison

matt morrison — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:57:42 +0000

This information is finally in the forefront of the painfully obvious now. We’ve installed white roofs, title 24 compliants roofing and sprayfoam roofs for years. Literally, the white roof immediately reduces your energy costs by 20-30% per year. Even the Department of Energy website http://www.ornl.gov/sci/roofs+walls/facts/CoolCalcEnergy.htm and http://www.aclimateseal.com has a calculator that will figure out your savings for you.

By: Anonymous User

Anonymous User — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:56:51 +0000

Hashem has pulled a con on the writer of this article. He was involved with the state of California in the late 90′s selling the same program he is trying to sell Obama. California offered rebates to people that coated roofs white.The simple payback did not match the added cost even with the government subsidy.This man has already taken millions of dollars from both the state of CA and the feds trying to sell this program.Bottom line is, the returns do not match the costs unless the taxpayers(you and me) foot the bill.

By: Carvan Mike

Carvan Mike — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:06:27 +0000

Why do you think there are twice as many white cars as any other colr on the roads? I’ve onwed over 300 vehicles in the last 30 years and half were white for a good reason. Here in Texas we have extreme heat and white is the color of choice becasue the interior is cooler after sitting in the sun all day verses darker colors. I own a black car and two white ones. Which do you think is cooler in the summer. White of course.

By: Carrie Devies

Carrie Devies — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:37:32 +0000

I’d like to see Aashem Akbaris’ proposal in the fore front of funded projects. I would also suggest that broad spectrum antimicrobial polymer paint be used. We could address more than one life threatening condition of the planet and the folks who occupy it.

By: Anonymous User

Anonymous User — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:55:21 +0000

Please don’t paint the roads white. It’d be hard to maintain since tires are black; the roads would only stay white for about a month, then they’d be heavily striped. It’d be very difficult for older people to see all the details they need to in order to drive safely. Do we really want to make driving any more difficult?Would it not make more sense to paint a bunch of rocks in the desert white? It doesn’t really matter where the white things are.The roofs can be painted white, I guess, since that’s not a big problem to maintain and it’s not like you need to pick out fine details while making constant life or death judgements while looking at a roof. Or we could install solar panels to actually do something useful with the incident solar energy, plus cut down on emissions from power plants.And I’m also concerned that the solar cycle seems to be declining, and that makes a lot bigger difference that CO2 emissions.Thanks,Tony Hammitt

By: Anonymous User

Anonymous User — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:29:34 +0000

White roads and buildings, time to start a sunglasses company

By: Anonymous User

Anonymous User — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:08:38 +0000

what about thermal changing colors? black for cold then color changes to white when hot? you’ll get the heat retention in winter and reflection in summer

By: Anonymous User

Anonymous User — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:26:11 +0000

I’ve actually been saying this for years. The greenhouse effect is radiation being reflected down. So? Reflect it back up! If we made roads white, that’d help too.

By: Anonymous User

Anonymous User — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:30:54 +0000

It would be more persuasive with a cost-benefit comparison of filling the same roof space for solar panels. RDS

By: Anonymous User

Anonymous User — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:48:54 +0000

Except that the earth is cooling, and it is going to continue to cool because global temperature is driven by solar activity, not CO2, and solar activity has now fallen from a 60 year “grand maximum” into what is beginning to look like a deep solar minimum. Albedo modification is still a great idea, but what will be need is black roofs, not white roofs. Alec Rawlshttp://errortheory.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-comment-on-epas-proposed-rulemaking.html

By: Vishwanath Srikantaiah

Vishwanath Srikantaiah — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:44:54 +0000

What a wonderfully simple idea. One knew it for long in Architecture but now that it makes a difference in global warming all the more reasons to adopt it. We integrate it with cooling the house, collecting rainwater and reducing global warming now as part of our ecological architecture practice. Thanks for the nice writeuphttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmCKZxk8f7c&feature=channel_pageandhttp://rainwaterharvesting.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/paint-roofs-white-and-cool-the-earth/is our bit to dissweminate this vital work of Hashem Akbari and groupregards