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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Next trick: make it into a paint or spray-on treatment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Better yet, make a giant sheet of it and float it in the ocean to fix the earth's albedo and stop climate change.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The copepods and algaes also need the light to draw down assloads of carbon though. Those tiny creatures suck up staggering amounts.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh, great idea! A nanoparticle ceramic aluminum oxide aerosol? What could possibly go wrong? 🤣

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol, it doesn’t have to be aerosolized in order for it to be sprayed. It can come out of a spray hose nozzle and be appropriately viscous. Workers can wear PPD.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You're missing the point, and even at that: this reply is insanely short-sighted. Aerosolized or atomized, is still fucking airborne nanoparticle ceramic aluminum oxide. 🙄

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I didn’t miss the point. You’re not understanding what I’m describing in a sufficiently contained substance that leaves its container and reaches its target surface with practically zero contamination of the local area. With a sufficiently viscous base liquid, it would be fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe a paint that you put on with a hairy stick brush would be better?