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Los Angeles painting city streets white in bid to combat climate change
Fox News ^
| 4/10/18
| Fedschun
Posted on 04/10/2018 12:45:48 PM PDT by pabianice
California officials are hoping their latest attempt to stem the rising tides of climate change leads to a more socially conscious -- and cooler -- summer.
Officials in Los Angeles have been painting streets white to reduce the effect of urban "heat islands" and combat the effects of climate change.
The LA Street Services began rolling out the project last May, which preliminary testing shows has reduced the temperature of roadways by up to 10 degrees. The project involves applying a light gray coating of the product CoolSeal, made by the company GuardTop.
"CoolSeal is applied like conventional sealcoats to asphalt surfaces to protect and maintain the quality and longevity of the surface," according to the company website. "While most cool pavements on the market are polymer based, CoolSeal is a water-based, asphalt emulsion."
While each coasting could can last up to seven years, they are also pricey, with the estimated cost of $40,000 per mile, the L.A. Daily News reported.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: paint; paintedpotholes; pothole; potholes
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These people are clinically insane. $40,000/mile to make sure drivers are blinded? Ever drive a car with a white hood? All you can see is the blinding glare of the Sun.
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posted on
04/10/2018 12:45:49 PM PDT
by
pabianice
To: pabianice
If CA truly cared about the climate, they’d go back to dirt roads.
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posted on
04/10/2018 12:47:31 PM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: pabianice
Somebody’s company got a sweet deal, follow the money
To: pabianice
Aren’t most paints manufactured with petroleum products?
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posted on
04/10/2018 12:47:39 PM PDT
by
z3n
To: pabianice
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posted on
04/10/2018 12:50:08 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: pabianice
That will cause a problem for those earth friendly autonomous vehicles. Oh well....Just another Marxist Fluster Cuck.
To: pabianice
OMG wait until the first rain and the slip-n-slide begins
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posted on
04/10/2018 12:50:55 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
To: BenLurkin
I like Tim Gunn. He’s immaculately dressed, but he’s not a snob. He’s a very, very nice man.
To: pabianice
"...white roads..."
Road color is far more important than fixing, say, 12”-deep potholes that can cause trucks, cars, motorcycles, and bicycles to crash.
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posted on
04/10/2018 12:52:33 PM PDT
by
Blue Jays
( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
To: pabianice
To: pabianice
To: pabianice
Why not just make the roads out of white(ish) concrete, the way TX and some other high-temp states do?
To: pabianice
White streets? That’s Racist.
Blacktop is far more racially balanced. Leave things alone.
To: pabianice
I’ll do it for $30,000 per mile
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posted on
04/10/2018 12:55:29 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
To: pabianice
Ok. Why not also paint all non-caucasians white? That would certainly help.
To: Mr. K
"...slip n’ slide..."
The vendor indicates the coating is *not* slippery when wet.
I will believe that when I see it and experience it live someday.
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posted on
04/10/2018 12:56:05 PM PDT
by
Blue Jays
( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
To: pabianice
Tree shade is 20* cooler. Dig up LA and plant trees.
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posted on
04/10/2018 12:56:07 PM PDT
by
huldah1776
( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
To: pabianice
WHITE streets? That smacks of microaggression to me.
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posted on
04/10/2018 12:56:25 PM PDT
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aquila48
To: pabianice; 100American; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; ...
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posted on
04/10/2018 12:56:31 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
To: pabianice
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posted on
04/10/2018 12:56:40 PM PDT
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
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