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CMiYC writes: "The New Scientist has a short story on a new kind of paint. In the winter it'll make your house darker to heat it up and in the summer it'll might your house's color light to help cool it down. For the best effect your house would have to go from black to white, but I don't know many people that would like their house to be black... Kind of gloomy."
Wouldn't it be cool to paint this stuff on the toilet seats at work? Then you could tell how long it's been since it has been in use. I hate sitting on a warm seat.
I heard a couple years ago that NREL (National Renewable Energy Lab) was working on amourphous silca (photovoltaic) shingles that were tied together electrically by nailing through a copper band on the underside of the shingle. The idea was that you'd just reshingle every house in America with these things.. I don't know exactly what happened with that project..
This reminds me of an engineer acquiantance of mine. He designed the most energy efficient house in Canada. It had solar panels, double-paned windows with a hollow wall between them and the outside, an ultra-efficient heating system, the works. It WAS the most energy efficient house, anyhow.. After a year, the tenants got so depressed looking at the energy efficient black paint that they painted it a nice light blue.
I think I can still hear the engineer gnashing his teeth about it..
...find a home painted in this stuff, and write obscene things on it with a low power laser, water pistol, etc.
...take a pic of same house on a normal summer day, go to paint store, get custom paint, come back and grafitti house liberally. Invisible today, pretty dramatic when winter comes around.
...get a stepladder, press butt or other anatomy against middle of front door, ring bell, run.
-b
If I wanted a sig I would have filled in that stupid box.
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