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Passive cooling in an urban setting

Nature Sustainability volume 2, pages 663–664 (2019)Cite this article

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Radiative cooling can be used to reduce building air-conditioning requirements. In urban environments, nearby buildings partially block access to the sky, which hinders radiative cooling, but a thermal beam-shaping design can help solve this problem.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA

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  2. Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA

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