While humans in such hot and picturesque places as Santorini and the aptly named Casablanca have long used white paint to cool dwellings, and municipalities are increasingly looking to paint ...

It started with [KB9ENS] looking into paints or coatings for passive or radiative cooling, and in the process he decided to DIY his own. Not only is it perfectly accessible to a home experimenter, … ...

But “our paint was still white,” says coauthor Jipeng Fei. ... Tests showed the house covered in the new paint used 30 to 40 percent less electricity for air conditioning than the other houses.