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Not as much benefits as their paint

> Commercially available white paints reflect between 80% and 90% of sunlight, according to lead researcher Prof Xiulin Ruan from Purdue, in West Lafayette, Indiana. "It's a big deal, because every 1% of reflectance you get translates to 10 watts per metre squared less heat from the Sun," he explained.



Yes, sure, but if you painted just two roofs white with regular paint, you're already doing much better than painting a single roof white with super-fancy paint.

And yet it's hard enough even to do that.




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