Green | July 25, 2009 | Comment on this video (6)

White Is Cool

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US Energy Secretary Steve Chu recently went to China to lobby the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter to get on board with the US to fight climate change. One of his suggestions to Chinese was to build white roofs on new buildings and build roads with light colored materials on the surface. This makes sense, although it sounds ridiculous. Here's why I think it's a good idea.
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  • Ish05
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      Ish05  

    • You know what would make the world cooler, greening the deserts. It would take massive water projects, to get started. It would also create great paying, high skilled, productive jobs. Certainly more nuclear power plants will be needed to power such a project. This is a better alternative than using the land to place endless acres of solar panels and wind mills.

    • 2 years ago
  • freedom765
  • Luckasa
  • chinashaken
  • Luckasa
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      Luckasa  

    • Ok.. very kewl..
      i am into that.
      good suggestions.

      but why not have white roofs in the USA too.. and stuff like that?
      why just China?

      but.. i think it was well thought out.. and looks good.

    • 2 years ago
  • chinashaken
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      chinashaken  
    • Luckasa:

      thanks for your note. well, first of all i am from china so that's a minor reason; but more importantly, china in the next 10-20 years could potentially build as much as the u.s. has built in the last 50 years or more. that's why china is really the key, and we probably don't really care how better america rebuilds itself, not that much as we care about china.

    • 2 years ago
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