Sentences with phrase «of white roofs»

The yearlong project in northern India will also be the first to take physical measurements to characterize the cooling and climate effects of white roofs.

With the aid of rooftop instruments, satellite images, an airplane and a balloon, Berkeley Lab scientists are conducting the first - ever study to determine how pollution impacts the efficacy of white roofs in cooling the planet.

Along with work at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, other published papers have addressed the broader benefits of white roofs.

A recent study found that the results of white roofs and green - planted roofs are quite different:

27 centuries before the current vogue of white roofs and «cool cities» initiatives, Solon The Lawgiver issued an edict ordering Athenians to whitewash their houses once a year.

She was a founding board member of the White Roof Project and formerly chair of the Legislative Committee of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence.

When it's dry, apply a coat of primer and two coats of the white roof paint with a long - handled roller, allowing the layers to dry after each application.

This episode of White Roof Radio is pretty much «all F56 all the time.»

I was thinking of the albedo effect of the white roof, and my comment was intending to get at the quantitative benefit of that.

In the presentation in question, Chu described the potential effects of the white roof proposal as follows:

Not exact matches

The signature, white - washed houses of Alentejo, with yellow or blue roofs and green shutters, are a welcome sight on a hot day.

Dylann Roof, the white 21 - year - old who allegedly gunned down nine black churchgoers earlier this summer in Charleston, South Carolina, credited the Council of Conservative Citizen with opening his eyes to black - on - white crime in a chilling manifesto posted online.

Its white curved roof sits on a base of drab concrete, surrounded by 130 acres of asphalt on the outskirts of Pontiac.

Roof top spoiler on white cab is poor use of space.

Alleged church shooter Dylann Roof was a white supremacist who posted pictures of himself posing with the flag online.

From the steep slopes of Carmel above Haifa the gaze follows down across the city with its white walls and red roofs and dark upreaching pinnacles of the cypresses, looking like so many church spires.

Given, now, a handsome señorita, with fine oval face and large, soft eyes, and broad, low brow and a strain of pure Castilian blood, to show red - warm through olive cheeks, a white kerchief over her bosom, and a glimpse of amber or gold beads about her throat, and the low, gray, wide - roofed adobe, scarlet - hued with festoons of red peppers, the whole seen against the burnt umber or yellow of the hills and under the pearly haze of a morning in September, and you have a grouping of such splendid color as would delight the heart of a painter.

The ballpark wasn't much of a structure — crude wooden planks, corrugated tin roof and chicken wire — but he was so pleased to own it that he painted the red and white O6 brand on the fences.

The stadium's roof was closed over which was good news for the players and 50,492 supporters, including several hundred in green and white, in light of the sub-zero temperatures outside.

The roof was well and truly lifted off the John Smith's Stadium as the scenes of utter jubilation amongst the sea of Blue and White was filled with unrivalled emotion and relief as Town took an almighty step to securing that pivotal place in the Premier League.

The roof of this fantasy - themed gingerbread house is made of gingerbread men cookies, and the fence around the house are simply pretzels dipped in white and dark chocolate.

The hush calmer gives you a choice of three soothing white noise sounds to choose from; heartbeat, ocean waves or rain falling on a tin roof, all set at a safe volume for baby's ears.

In infants, you may see white patches on the insides of the cheeks, on the tongue, on the roof of the mouth, and on the lips and gums as it spreads.

Saturday - Sunday, August 20 - 21 We have been asked to provide volunteers for an event to help the NYC environment: a white roof painting of buildings in the East Village which have been identified by the organization FAB (Fourth Arts Block).

Later that week, at almost the exact moment that Mr. Cuomo was in a Manhattan ballroom condemning the city's public housing as «disgusting,» Mr. de Blasio was on the roof of a New York City Housing Authority development in Queens swiping at the governor for acting «like the great white knight.»

Roofs represent 12 percent of all surfaces citywide, Stringer said, noting that temperatures in the city would drop 2 percent if all rooftops were painted white.

With its dense population and abundance of roofs and blacktop, the Lower East Side has been identified as the hottest neighborhood in Manhattan, said White Roof Project executive director Heather James.

For example, a white roof that reflects 80 percent of the sun's light on a typical summer afternoon will stay about 31 degrees C cooler than a gray roof that reflects only 20 percent.

The city also has coated 0.62 square kilometers of roof surfaces white since 2009.

The city of Los Angeles now requires that new or replaced roofs for homes and other residential buildings meet a solar reflectance index value — a measure of a materials» ability to stay cool in the sun between zero (black surface) and 100 (white)-- of at least 75 for flatter roofs and 16 for steeper ones.

New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg has committed city funds to converting some of the area's black tar and stone roofs into highly reflective white roofs, which reduce temperatures on roofs and cooling costs but fail to address the storm water runoff problem.

One of the 32 solar - thermal panels that captured energy on the roof of the White House more than 30 years ago landed this week at a science museum in China

After an absence of nearly 30 years, the Obama administration has announced that a 6.3 kilowatt photovoltaic installation of the «typical size for an American house,» is back on the White House roof and generating power.

Modifying the roofs with light - colored tiles, the team found that using light - colored concrete, or applying white glazes to buildings, could increase the reflectivity of urban surfaces by 10 %.

A can of white paint should be part of the planet's arsenal against global warming, say California researchers, who have calculated that installing white roofs in the world's cities could offset 1.5 years of man - made carbon emissions.

Christopher Miles With our white roof, our townhome is (relatively) cool - also have plenty of water in rain capture barrel to pour over the head.

Those chemicals also act as potent greenhouse gases, so the agreement also makes him the negotiator of one of the most effective global climate treaties ever, despite being part of an administration that famously removed solar technology from the White House roof.

The building that is the Dudley Do - Right of these efforts, however, is DOE's own white - roofed, partially sun - powered Washington headquarters.

In 2011 Stanford University researchers found that white roofs would provide some local cooling but at the expense of more global warming, largely because such cooling means less hot air rising and therefore fewer clouds forming.

And white roofs can reduce precipitation as well, by reducing the amount of warm, humid air rising and, thus, the number of clouds and eventual rainfall.

Other solutions cited in the study include white roofs that reflect more sunlight back to space or hybrid roofs that combine aspects of white and green, or planted, roofs.

As part of a project known as Cool Roofs, volunteers in New York City have been painting black roofs white and have so far covered more than 500,000 square meters of roof, though that's less than one percent of the possible Roofs, volunteers in New York City have been painting black roofs white and have so far covered more than 500,000 square meters of roof, though that's less than one percent of the possible roofs white and have so far covered more than 500,000 square meters of roof, though that's less than one percent of the possible area.

And it's one of the main causes of thrush, a type of fungal infection that can cause sore white or red patches on your gums, tongue, cheeks or roof or your mouth.

A white roof reflects the sun's light and heat, so a couple of coats of paint can reduce your carbon emissions and take about 20 percent off your energy bills.

The look we wanted was something like «Alice in Wonderland meets Classic Shabby Chic» nothing matching or set themes but lots of detail everywhere you look at, we hired a giant sized white lamp which looked fab and was a good taking point for people we also bought beautiful vintage white umbrellas and hung them from the roof of the wedding tent near the beach.»

But later the women skinny white cheap ripped jeans made that possible for them as they introduced the new range of cheap skinny ripped trousers for women which was first more costly then the normal trousers but was later introduced on much cheap price as the demand which exceeds and touched the roof within days.

If you are a homeowner, painting your roof white may save you thousands of dollars on your electric bill.

Whether you look back fondly on Taylor's performance in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, her White Diamonds perfume commercial, humanitarian efforts or maybe even hearing her utter Maggie's first word on an episode of The Simpsons, she certainly has a career and a life worth remembering and celebrating.

The scene in question is Cale (wearing that unmistakable undershirt) fighting lead bad - guy Stenz (Lawless» Jason Clarke) on the roof of the White House.

As a 2005 Washington Post obituary for Sullivan said of that time, «Sullivan's home was shot at, the roof of his white Buick convertible was slashed, and he fielded threatening phone calls at all hours.