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For the heat island effect the distinction is immaterial. The city itself is still absorbing more heat, this heat must go somewhere. Your reasoning is a bit li
by contravariant 3y ago
For the heat island effect the distinction is immaterial. The city itself is still absorbing more heat, this heat must go somewhere.
Your reasoning is a bit like assuming solar panels stop flooding because they prevent the roof from getting wet.
- hinkley 3y agoMy point was that a carbon black shingle would result in a much higher amount of work required to cool the inside of the house because you'd be baking yourself alive. The standoffs for solar prevent that. Which at 20% efficiency panels, back of the envelope says that could end up cancelling out the benefit of the panels entirely, for more than half the year.