Newly engineered material can cool roofs, structures with zero energy consumption

ENN
Feb 15, 2017, 4:24 pm93 pts
A team of University of Colorado Boulder engineers has developed a scalable manufactured metamaterial — an engineered material with extraordinary properties not found in nature — to act as a kind of air conditioning system for structures. It has the ability to cool objects even under direct sunlight with…

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