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Scientists develop futuristic material to help us beat the heat: 'A viable candidate for radiative cooling' (www.thecooldown.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Huh... anybody have a link to the full research paper and not just the pay walled abstract?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

unfortunately doesn't seem to e on scihub yet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Large scalable, ultrathin and self-cleaning cellulose aerogel film for daytime radiative cooling

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Turns out my browser script blocker was keeping the full thing from loading. smacks self in forehead

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

9 of the 20 links in that article go back to the same press release. Quite a few more go back to the host site. The links about aerogel point to this 2018 paper on PubMed https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6403747/

This seems like it's either AI scraped and generated, or really bad reporting.

If they have an aerogel that is non toxic and environmentally stable I would love to see it. It's certainly possible but this article doesn't show it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I would love this for my house, it’ll be 15 degrees over ambient by 7am in the summer from the smallest bit of sunlight

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This could help reduce cooling costs. Can it be applied to existing houses?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

looks that way yeah