{"id":216516,"date":"2025-06-24T13:08:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/sustainable-cooling-film-could-slash-building-energy-use-by-20-amid-rising-global-temperatures"},"modified":"2025-06-24T13:08:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:08:45","slug":"sustainable-cooling-film-could-slash-building-energy-use-by-20-amid-rising-global-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/sustainable-cooling-film-could-slash-building-energy-use-by-20-amid-rising-global-temperatures","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable cooling film could slash building energy use by 20% amid rising global temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sustainable-cooling-film-could-slash-building-energy-use-by-20-amid-rising-global-temperatures.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of scientists has developed a biodegradable material that could slash global energy consumption without using any electricity, according to a new study published today.<\/p>\n<p>The bioplastic metafilm\u2014that can be applied to buildings, equipment and other surfaces\u2014passively cools temperatures by as much as 9.2\u00b0C during peak sunlight and reflects almost 99% of the sun\u2019s rays.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by researchers from Zhengzhou University in China and the University of South Australia (UniSA), the new film is a sustainable and long-lasting material that could reduce building energy consumption by up to 20% a year in some of the world\u2019s hottest cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of scientists has developed a biodegradable material that could slash global energy consumption without using any electricity, according to a new study published today. The bioplastic metafilm\u2014that can be applied to buildings, equipment and other surfaces\u2014passively cools temperatures by as much as 9.2\u00b0C during peak sunlight and reflects almost 99% of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216516","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}