{"id":148838,"date":"2022-10-25T04:22:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/goodbye-ac-this-new-roofing-material-keeps-houses-cool"},"modified":"2022-10-25T04:22:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:22:39","slug":"goodbye-ac-this-new-roofing-material-keeps-houses-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/goodbye-ac-this-new-roofing-material-keeps-houses-cool","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye AC: This new roofing material keeps houses cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/goodbye-ac-this-new-roofing-material-keeps-houses-cool2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Air conditioning is something you barely notice \u2014 until the power goes out, and it no longer works. But what if keeping cool didn\u2019t require electricity at all?<\/p>\n<p>A scientist has invented a material that reflects the sun\u2019s rays off rooftops, and even absorbs heat from homes and buildings and radiates it away. And \u2014 get this \u2014 it is made from recyclable paper. <strong> The essential AC: <\/strong>Air conditioners are in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/todayinenergy\/detail.php?id=36692\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">87% of homes<\/a> in the United States, costing the homeowner $265 per year, on average. Some homes can easily spend twice that.<\/p>\n<p>With global temperatures on the rise, no one is giving up their AC. More people are installing air conditioners than ever before, especially in developing countries where the middle class can finally afford them. 15 years ago, very few people in China\u2019s urban regions had air conditioners; now, there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/energy-environment\/wp\/2016\/05\/31\/the-world-is-about-to-install-700-million-air-conditioners-heres-what-that-means-for-the-climate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a> AC units in China than there are homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air conditioning is something you barely notice \u2014 until the power goes out, and it no longer works. But what if keeping cool didn\u2019t require electricity at all? A scientist has invented a material that reflects the sun\u2019s rays off rooftops, and even absorbs heat from homes and buildings and radiates it away. And \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148838","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}