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Asphalt is black, and a high albedo is hard for anything to maintain with dirt, dust, and age.
by ip26 4y ago
Asphalt is black, and a high albedo is hard for anything to maintain with dirt, dust, and age.
- Tagbert 4y agoI had assumed that the white color would come from a white granular material impressed into the asphalt base
- stephen_g 4y agoThat’s not it in Australia - we don’t use asphalt roofing. Normal roofs are tile, steel or (more rarely) zinc here. I think the US is fairly unique in that regard. I’m so used to our houses here that the idea of using shingles made of asphalt just seems bizarre to me.