Obama’s Green Guru Calls for White Roofs

Obama’s green guru calls for white roofs
Telegraph.co.uk
Professor Steven Chu, the US Energy Secretary, said the unusual proposal would mean homes in hot countries would save energy and money on air conditioning by deflecting the sun’s rays.
More pale surfaces could also slow global warming by reflecting heat into space rather than allowing it to be absorbed by dark surfaces where it is trapped by greenhouse gases and increases temperatures
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist said the US was not considering any large scale “geo-engineering” projects where science is used to reverse global warming, but was in favour of “white roofs everywhere”.
He said lightening roofs and roads in urban environments would offset the global warming effects of all the cars in the world for 11 years.

“If you look at all the buildings and if you make the roofs white and if you make the pavement more of a concrete type of colour rather than a black type of colour and if you do that uniformally, that would be the equivalent of… reducing the carbon emissions due to all the cars in the world by 11 years – just taking them off the road for 11 years,” he said.

Secretary Chu said he was optimistic the US could lead the way through energy efficiency measures and boosting the use of renewables like solar, wind, nuclear and clean coal.

“The US will move, inevitably it will move first, as a more developed country we should be moving first, and I hope China will follow,” he said.

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The Science Behind White Roofs
It turns out that three huge proponents of the idea to paint the town white are former colleagues of Secretary Chu from the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (LBNL) and they’re looking for their share of stimulus loot:

“It’s also well timed. Akbari pointed out that by his and his colleagues’ calculations, the plan could save Americans $2 billion annually in unspent air conditioning, even after taking into account the increased need for heating in winter. Moreover, he argued, it dovetails with the president’s economic and environmental goals.”

“The Obama administration has made it clear that it wants a substantial portion of the stimulus package to go toward creating a greener economy, but that desire has to be balanced against the imperative to immediately circulate cash and create jobs. Painting or resurfacing roofs or pavement, Akbari said, would nicely fulfill both objectives. The technology exists and is readily available, and since a substantial portion of the country’s home and commercial real-estate owners are going to need to re-roof at some point in the near future anyway, it’s about as shovel-ready as any proposal currently on the table.”

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Wild Thing’s comment…….
Department of Energy needs to be renamed to the Department of Idiocy! This guy Kook-Kook-a-Chu is a whacko!
Hmmm, white roofs. I’ll put that idea right next to the ‘safer guns and safer bullets’ gemstone from Jocelyn Elders.
Plus the fact that they are using this Global warming LIE to for thei rown purposes. Just like Gore has done with his huge increase in income.
From Rush Limbaugh:

“The proponents, be they from science, be they from the lay community, are all looking for money. They’re looking for donations; they’re looking for grants from the government to advance a cause. They’re looking for money and whatever it takes to get the money they will claim they’re researching, and then of course they’ll be duty-bound to produce the results that the grantor wants.

So we gotta go out and paint roofs white, and that’s the only story — you have to go to a blog to find out why. The Drive-Bys, in reporting that Steven Chu wants you to paint your roof white don’t tell you why. “Oh, you save the planet.” They don’t tell you that two of his colleagues are behind the ruse in order to get stimulus money, stimulus money which is supposed to be creating new jobs. How is that stimulus money working for you, if you’re unemployed? How is that hope and change working for you? So now environmentalist wackos want their fists on the stimulus money under the guise of saving the planet with white roofs. “

….Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
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