reflective pavements Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:14:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 New Reflective Pavements Increase Building Temperatures and Electricity Bills https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-reflective-pavements-increase-building-temperatures-and-electricity-bills-20121109/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-reflective-pavements-increase-building-temperatures-and-electricity-bills-20121109/#respond Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:14:05 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=27895 On 29th of October, the new Journal of Urban Climate published a study which indicated that replacing old, heat-trapping paving materials with newer and cooler ones could increase electricity bills of neighboring buildings. According to the authors, the new materials lower the temperature of the place where they are used. Jan Kleissl, one of the […]

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