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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 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year 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 1 year 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?