{"id":6100,"date":"2017-10-27T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/?p=6100\/"},"modified":"2023-03-17T10:35:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T09:35:12","slug":"cooling-with-the-sunlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/en\/6100\/cooling-with-the-sunlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooling with the sunlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first glance it sounds like a contradiction, but this is the effect actually achieved by the <strong>innovative coating<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/solcold.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Solcold<\/strong><\/a> developed by an Israel-based<strong> startup<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/sunlight-cooling-coating-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9179 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/sunlight-cooling-coating-1-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/sunlight-cooling-coating-1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/sunlight-cooling-coating-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>cooling coating<\/strong> employs an active cooling process involving the basic principles of <strong>laser cooling<\/strong>, applying the idea to the spectrum of sunlight. The coating not only reflect the sunlight, lowering the temperature of exposed surfaces and rooftops, decreasing <strong>energy consumption of conditioning systems<\/strong>. The solution employs the sun rays to activate a chemical process able to transform fa\u00e7ades and rooftops in a sort of layer of ice, actively <strong>cooling them up to 10\u00b0 C<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The researchers engineered a coating that resulted in a two-layered paint, an outer element that filters out some of the sun\u2019s rays, and an inner one that <strong>converts heat to light<\/strong>, resulting in coolness below the ambient temperature. Lowering the <strong>building\u2019s emissions footprint<\/strong>, the solution could be easily employed in new constructions as well as in order to <strong>improve energy efficiency<\/strong> of existing ones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Scambiatori-di-calore-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9181 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Scambiatori-di-calore-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Scambiatori-di-calore-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Scambiatori-di-calore-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The coating could then also be <strong>used in space<\/strong>, to ward off heat resulting from the lack of air. Actually, to disperse heat away from space equipments are used reflecting fabrics and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.tempco.it\/solutions-en\/heat-exchangers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>heat exchangers<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first glance it sounds like a contradiction, but this is the effect actually achieved by the innovative coating Solcold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,73,63],"tags":[999,1003,1000,127,1004,1001,869,126,649,138,997,3602,998,3603,1002],"class_list":["post-6100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooling","category-energy-saving","category-heat-exchangers","tag-buildings-efficiency","tag-coating","tag-conditioning-systems","tag-cooling-2","tag-cooling-coating","tag-emissions-footprint","tag-energy-consumption","tag-energy-efficiency","tag-heat-dissipation","tag-heat-exchangers-2","tag-laser-cooling","tag-solcold-en","tag-space-equipment","tag-startup-en-2","tag-sunlight"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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