Whitening Cities' Roofs Is Environmental Equivalent of Taking 300 Million Cars Off the Road, DoE Study Says
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 | White Roof Making roofs white can offset the warming effect of two years' worth of global carbon dioxide emissions, a new study says. NREL Whitening the world's roofs would offset the emissions of the world's cars for 20 years, according to a new st ... |
DOE Buildings to Get Cool Roofs that Reflect Heat Back into Space
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| The idea that white roofs can both reduce the average temperature of cities and reduce the amount of energy required for cooling buildings received both scientific verification and practical application yesterday. A report from Lawrence Berkeley Nat ... |
National Research Council Report Underscores the Urgency of CO2 Emmisions Reductions
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| WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Congress wrangles over climate legislation in the nation’s capitol, a new report by the National Research Council suggests that decisions made now about cutting atmospheric carbon dioxide may lock in climate changes for centuri ... |
U.S. Energy Department offices to use white roofs to fight climate change
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 | Eco Factor: White roofs help reflect sunlight and reduce carbon emission. All of us know that light colors are great reflectors, while darker ones are best absorbers. Why not utilize the same technique for our roofs. Dr. Steven Chu, United States Se ... |
Warmer climate could increase release of carbon dioxide by inland lakes
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 | Much organically bound carbon is deposited on inland lake bottoms. A portion remains in the sediment, sometimes for thousands of years, while the rest is largely broken down to carbon dioxide and methane, which are released into the atmosphere. Swedi ... |
From the blogosphere: DOE does cool, Google goes with wind
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| CleanTechies joined several of their online colleagues in enthusiastically reporting on cool roofs, which “could help reduce global temperatures and offset the heat from as much as two years of global greenhouse gas emissions,” according to a new re ... |
Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall in 2009 – Past Decade Still Sees Rapid Emissions Growth
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| By Amy Heinzerling In 2009, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in China—the world’s leading emitter—grew by nearly 9 percent. At the same time, emissions in most industrial countries dropped, bringing global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use down from a ... |
Global carbon dioxide emissions fall in 2009—Past decade still sees rapid emissions growth
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| by Amy Heinzerling. In 2009, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in China—the world’s leading emitter—grew by nearly nine percent. At the same time, emissions in most industrial countries dropped, bringing global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use down f ... |
Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fell in 2009, But Swift Action Is Still Necessary
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 | China's and India's carbon dioxide emissions have grown, while others nations' have dropped In 2009, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions in China--the world's leading emitter--grew by nearly 9 percent. At the same time, emissions in most industrial cou ... |
