{"id":3575,"date":"2014-11-26T13:02:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T18:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3575"},"modified":"2014-11-27T08:53:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T13:53:29","slug":"a-cool-way-to-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/a-cool-way-to-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"A cool way to cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Researchers have created a new rooftop cooling device that works under direct sunlight, without electricity, by emitting back heat radiation into space.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The authors have produced a multi-layered solar reflector made of hafnium dioxide (HfO2) and silicon dioxide (SiO2) that reflects 97 per cent of sunlight at a frequency called the \u2018infrared atmospheric transparency window\u2019 which doesn\u2019t heat up the atmosphere and goes right back into the \u2018cold darkness of the Universe\u2019.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This device can cool underlying buildings to 5 degrees Celsius below the ambient air temperature and could help reduce cooling costs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v515\/n7528\/full\/nature13883.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>November 26, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/group\/fan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shanhui Fan<\/a><\/span>, Stanford University, USA<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have created a new rooftop cooling device that works under direct sunlight, without electricity, by emitting back heat radiation into space. The authors have produced a multi-layered solar reflector made of hafnium dioxide (HfO2) and silicon dioxide (SiO2) that reflects 97 per cent of sunlight at a frequency called the \u2018infrared atmospheric transparency window\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[31,1445,644,215,1011],"class_list":["post-3575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-climate-change","tag-conservation","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-VF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3595,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions\/3595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}