Sentences with phrase «black asphalt»

Cities could provide air - conditioned shelters and cut down on the use of black asphalt in favor of lighter - colored materials.

For doctors and lawyers and engineers and people like that, drag racing is release, and one day a week on a ribbon of black asphalt in a field somewhere on the perimeter of a town is like a day spent under a billow of sail.

Dark - colored or black asphalt absorbs between 80 % and 95 % of the sun's rays, heating up LA's streets up to 150 degrees F.

Black asphalt on roads and in parking lots is particularly dangerous because black objects absorb more heat than lighter ones.

Earl arrived there via Charleston, S.C. and a fatherless tenement on West 133rd Street, but home had been the pitted black asphalt of Harlem's basketball courts.

This bed of nails is currently on offer for a paltry # 40 000 a year — scarcely more than the cost of 2000 square feet of glistening black asphalt laid on the site of special scientific interest of your choice.

«There's new black asphalt coming out of Mulsanne and going down through Indianapolis and Arnage, and on that whole section you're guessing whether it's wet or dry.

With Brooke wilting in the back seat, we followed the jet - black asphalt artery that twisted this way and that; its existence was not engineered, but conditional, determined by the desert's good graces.

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.

Lots of nice black asphalt and buildings there to absorb the feeble sunshine at that latitude.

He reports urbanization has left many sites in unsuitable locations such as on hot black asphalt, next to trash burn barrels, beside heat exhaust vents, even attached to hot chimneys and above outdoor grills!

Black asphalt doesn't share that attribute.

Black asphalt absorbs heat, concrete covers vegetation, cars and power sources produce heat.

Adding the coating to a patch of black asphalt can keep the area up to 5.55 °C cooler, a difference that could prove vital as global temperatures continue to increase.

There was not a breath of air, and the black asphalt was sticky and melting as it gave way to the afternoon heat.

In Lost Highway (2008) and Vanishing Point (2008), the dashed white lines and black asphalt of the highway become part of these spatial compositions.

If one has ever worn a black t - shirt or walked from a black asphalt parking lot to a white sandy beach on a bright summer day, then he or she understands how albedo works.