{"id":121730,"date":"2021-04-19T07:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T14:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/ultra-white-paint-cools-surfaces"},"modified":"2021-04-19T07:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T14:22:18","slug":"ultra-white-paint-cools-surfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/ultra-white-paint-cools-surfaces","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-white paint cools surfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultra-white-paint-cools-surfaces.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The researchers believe that this shade of white may be the polar opposite equivalent of the blackest black \u2013 known as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.futuretimeline.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/15.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Vantablack<\/a>\u201d \u2013 which absorbs up to 99.9% of visible light. An earlier version developed by the Purdue team in October last year reflected 95.5% of sunlight. However, this latest version is even more efficient with up to 98.1% reflected and keeps surfaces even cooler.<\/p>\n<p>Typical commercial white paint gets warmer, rather than cooler. Paints on the market that are designed to reject heat reflect only 80%-90% of sunlight and can\u2019t make surfaces cooler than their surroundings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers believe that this shade of white may be the polar opposite equivalent of the blackest black \u2013 known as \u201cVantablack\u201d \u2013 which absorbs up to 99.9% of visible light. An earlier version developed by the Purdue team in October last year reflected 95.5% of sunlight. However, this latest version is even more efficient [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}