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Originally Posted by Martin Pal
Los Angeles is Painting Their Roads White to Cool the City Down and Improve Air Quality
In a first step towards tackling overheating, the city of Los Angeles is painting black asphalt roads with a white reflecting coating. It has been proven to reduce temperatures significantly.
Link HERE.
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This article HERE, from May, talks about testing this out in Canoga Park.
Some of the articles call the sealant white and others refer to it as gray.
Another article HERE mentions a downside:
Of course, Jet Propulsion Laboratory climatologist Bill Patzert tells the Daily News that, while the “cool pavement” could help reverse the Heat Island Effect, it won’t be enough to offset the loss of urban forestland, should drought conditions cause vegetation to continue drying up in coming years.
Trial roads in all 15 council districts were coated with the reflective surfacing this past June.
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Dodger Stadium should do this in their parking lot.
Anyone else heard of this or seen it?
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In Westchester, the short block of 77th Street between Cowan and Beland, next to Cowan Avenue School,
was covered with the heat-reducing coating:
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