Obama wants you to paint your roof white

[jimmyblue]

I painted some of my roof with silver tar, it makes a
very big difference in attic temperature. Every bit
of energy you have to take out via the A/C, you
pay for 3X (heat pump efficiency into 90F ambient,
pretty piss poor).

I also painted my old van's roof with the white paint.
Being as it had a joke aftermarket A/C, this was a
big deal.

Since I thought of it first, maybe I should be Climate
Czar. But I don't wear suits.

It troubles me deeply that so many people cannot
separate science from politics, and some of them
prosper by polluting science -for- politics. Which
then yields law based on corrupted thought. Deeply,
I say.

Unless you're creating a sustainable energy surplus
within your property, we all junkies and bitching
about the price of pixie dust is just that.

Back to the black roof, white roof, can't we all get
a loan thing... when all the worlds' deserts are black
PV panels and no high-albedo sand, shedding 80%
of incident energy as heat into the lower atmosphere
instead of reflecting back out, what's that add to
thermal budget?

Forget the Mars mission, give us a million square
mile floppy shade hat in geosynchronous orbit.
Tilted sideways on weekends.

[n0dih]

No one at all discounts it doesn't help, for sure it does. In the Army my avionics shelter that was fresh out of rebuilt actually came with the AC shade kit, so when in warm climates you could erect a secondary canvas roof to sheild the shelter (CARC green) to improve AC efficiency. But of course the practicallity, we never had time to erect it, as we always had camoflauge nets over it anyway, which helped a LOT in the deep deserts of Iraq and Kuwait and Saudi Arabia (when I was there in 1990-1991), we lived in 110-130F temps, sleeves down, and it really wasn't bad at all. After all its a dry heat right? (tonque in cheek)

We need to develop a flippable roof, that you can or a sensor can flip small panels that go from white to black as needed for energy capture, something that is rugged to handle bad weather and last a long time, exceeding the life of tar roofs.

(now that this is documented and dated here, anyone who tries to patent it, sorry, its mine first!)