It’s made of a material called polyvinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropene (have fun reading it out loud), filled with ...

Herb Van Gent points his infrared gun at a square of still unpainted gray shingle and clicks the trigger. He gets an immediate temperature reading: 143 degrees and rising. Then he aims it 5 feet away ...

White roofs are one of those climate solutions that sound too good to be true. Compared to solar panels and electric cars, painting the roof of a building white is a suspiciously cheap, analog way to ...

Austin, April 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Roof Coating Market Size was valued at 2.66 Billion in 2023 and is expected to reach USD 3.64 Billion by 2032, growing at a CAGR of 3.54% over the ...

A zoomed-in shot of a paint roller being applied to a roof. The roller is white with its application product. In the right setting, a cool-roof coating can cut the energy consumption of a building by ...

Before they were provided with white paint, women in Badi Bhil Basti used to dampen the curtains inside to try and keep cool (Credit: Mitul Kajaria) Extreme heat is having a detrimental impact on ...

CEBU, Philippines - Paint your roofs white for a greener tomorrow. This is what some 100 volunteers were trying to tell the people when they painted 20 roofs in Barangay Luz yesterday as one of the ...

New York and other cities see a climate fix in white paint, which is coating more rooftops as way to cool buildings and cut energy use. They may soon have another option: paint made of glass.