https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/04/10/la-painting-streets-white-to-prevent-g...

You've never sat out a light at 110' in Tucson...

 The article headline as usual is intentionally misleading.  Its to reduce heat emitted from the street, not to combat "global warming".  

 This has been in the works for years as part of an investigation intended to reduce roadwork repair over time and micro-heat increases in areas containing high-reflectivity heat retention.  Its an attempt to reduce the Heat Island effect and this is comprehensive in its evaluation.  If miles of blacktop increase local temperatures then area cooling attempts increase, the idea is that people may use less resources like air conditioning if the local climate is cooler.  This may or may not work, but it wont work if its not attempted I imagine.

 The climate change nonsense is just that.  Also the hope is that the coating eventually replaces repeated pothole/crack repair.  Coolguard was chosen out of a selection of GuardTop products.  I don't know if it will work, I would be surprised if it did.  

 If it becomes an accepted method of application the cost would need to go down or its back to standard repair.

I read it. I saw that.
Doesn't mean painting the streets is a good plan.
And it's irritating when they twist the truth and make the headline about something else. Happens all the time, and I don't know why the truth wouldn't have been every bit as good. At least I wouldn't have been so tempted to stop reading when I saw the disconnect between the headline and the story.

I would ask the people pushing for it what they think of the fact that they want to smear PAINT, actually, some kinda sealer/insulating surface, over All that area, for it to slowly erode into the surrounding area and drainage. What is the carbon footprint of making it and shipping it?

Since that Is the religion of so many people over there, I wonder if they have genuflected appropriately to the gw god with respect to this idea.

$40,000.00 PER MILE, on How many miles?
And how much would the homeless people like summathat?

It looks only a minuscule amount less ridiculous than the
Bridge to Nowhere,
Which got shitcanned.

Gonna be something to watch..