Ultra-white ceramic cools buildings with record-high 99.6% reflectivity::undefined

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    1 year ago

    The article addresses that. It is because ceramics are durable while paints and coatings are not.

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      Seems like the effort involved in putting down paint would outweigh the durability. Perhaps they’re thinking about robots to place the tiles though, like on Starship?

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        Roof tiles. They want to make these into roof tiles. There is a big picture in the article and they even talk about roof tiles. Did no one read the article?