heat-absorbing

Solar panels will act like any heat-absorbing materials (such as pavement and buildings in cities): they will increase local temperatures.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Wherein I Actually Agree with Dianne Feinstein 2009

This conjecture has mistakenly focused on specifically light-absorbing gases, however, ignoring heat-absorbing gases altogether.

Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

I wasn't sure if it was my technique, my lousy heat-absorbing counters, or my rolling pin.

Archive 2008-09-01 Laura 2008

I wasn't sure if it was my technique, my lousy heat-absorbing counters, or my rolling pin.

Rolling Out Harvest Sunflower Cookies Laura 2008

Even without working out the infra-red absorbing capacity of this extra CO2, and what it represents in terms of the overall greenhouse effect, even a lay person should be able to understand that an extra 1.1 kg of heat-absorbing 'blanket' per square metre represents a non-trivial addition.

The Simplest Explanation EliRabett 2010

The other is the effect of soot from the millions of wood and coal-burning stoves in India and China and the combustion of diesel fuel and coal, which is turning the surface of the Himalayan glaciers into heat-absorbing, rather than heat-reflecting, landforms, only further accelerating the warming process.

The Most Endangered Glaciers 2010

At least 10 to 30 percent of global warming measured during the past two decades may be due to increased solar output rather than factors such as increased heat-absorbing carbon dioxide gas released by various human activities, two Duke University physicists report.

Sound Politics: Faith-based initiatives 2007

The building uses site orientation, hi-tech window glazing, air circulation strategies, and heat-absorbing materials to reduce energy consumption by 60% over a conventional building of the same size, and the reduced energy needs are met by PV panels and large - and small-scale wind turbines.

Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » Zero Energy Office Building 2007

But there are better schemes in the works, says Golden, including shooting heat-absorbing carbon (soot) into the eyewall to change the distribution of heat.

Who’ll Stop the Rain? 2008

Per 100 square feet moving from traditional heat-absorbing shingles to reflective, high-albedo roofing is an offset of a ton of CO2 emissions.

A. Siegel: Energy COOL: White Roofing as Silver Bullet to slay Global Warming? 2008