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Ultra-white ceramic cools buildings with record-high 99.6% reflectivity (newatlas.com)
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[–] WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The article addresses that. It is because ceramics are durable while paints and coatings are not.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Seems like the effort involved in putting down paint would outweigh the durability. Perhaps they’re thinking about robots to place the tiles though, like on Starship?

[–] WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Roof tiles. They want to make these into roof tiles. There is a big picture in the article and they even talk about roof tiles. Did no one read the article?