Sentences with phrase «black asphalt roofs»

Black asphalt roofs and paving redouble the solar heat load in areas where impermeable ground limits evaporative heat dissipation, and run off often gathers in water features with albedos as low as the asphalt surrounding them.

Not exact matches

Actually, it was scraping up asphalt attached to the factory floor, loading roofing membranes (that's roofing speak for the dark rolls of disgusting black material that gets laid down over the roof while inconveniently sticking to every far flung corner of the human body).

Cities, with their abundance of black roofs and asphalt parking lots, tend to absorb more sunlight and radiate more heat than the surrounding countryside.