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Does anyone know how much the automobile directly and indirectly contributes to the heat island effect? Not only do you have thousands of vehicles burning thou
by samcheng 9y ago
Does anyone know how much the automobile directly and indirectly contributes to the heat island effect?
Not only do you have thousands of vehicles burning thousands of gallons of petroleum, you also have low-albedo asphalt parking lots everywhere.
Do car-friendly cities have a bigger heat-island effect than transit-friendly cities?
- stdbrouw 9y agoDid you at least attempt to read the article? It's in the first paragraph.
- samcheng 9y agoThe article mentions that the energy input from combustion is significantly higher than that from insolation in Manhattan in January, but also that the primary driver of the heat island effect is from building materials. Obviously asphalt roads and (especially) parking lots are an indirect contributor to low-albedo and low-permeability landscape. Taken together, how much of the heat island effect is due to the automobile? Would a pedestrian + transit city, with aggressive tree canopy, still be a heat island?