IR-Reflective Black Paint

The cluster discusses a novel black paint that appears dark in visible light but highly reflects infrared/heat radiation for passive cooling, with debates on its durability, dust resistance, wear from use, and advantages over white paints for applications like roofs and vehicles.

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UncleEntity Jan 28, 2018 View on HN

Maybe some transparent non-IR reflective paint?

tedunangst Sep 15, 2019 View on HN

Are the incremental improvements over regular black paint meaningful?

jeffbee Apr 16, 2021 View on HN

Wouldn't the reflectivity degrade almost immediately, as dust landed on said painted surface?

Would this actually look like bright white paint? Maybe because they're also trying to reflect light outside the visible spectrum it might not be as bright in the colours we can actually see.

aitchnyu Nov 1, 2023 View on HN

My sedan has reflections from the dash on the windshield and it gets annoying in the sun. Can this paint help or will it turn into millions of lung impaling particles when the car is parked in the sun?

nitrogen Apr 17, 2021 View on HN

Just need to make sure that the white coating doesn't block radiation of heat to the building underneath when black is facing the sun.

esotericn Aug 30, 2019 View on HN

How wear resistant is it? Presumably any coating would add reflectivity?

hinkley Nov 12, 2023 View on HN

You can't run tires on a reflective surface and expect it to remain reflective.

jkmcf Oct 27, 2012 View on HN

Title doesn't do the article justice: the paint increases the reflectivity so over the course of time the Sun's photons deflect it.

jtbayly Aug 30, 2019 View on HN

I'm pretty sure regular black paint has aluminum to reflect a lot of energy back out.