Thursday, April 12, 2018
Los Angeles painting city streets white in bid to combat climate change
Travis Fedschun wrote about this at FoxNews.com-LINK TEXT:
"The LA Street Services began rolling out the project last May, which preliminary testing shows has reduced the temperature of roadways by up to 10 degrees. The project involves applying a light gray coating of the product CoolSeal, made by the company GuardTop.
'CoolSeal is applied like conventional sealcoats to asphalt surfaces to protect and maintain the quality and longevity of the surface,' according to the company website. 'While most cool pavements on the market are polymer based, CoolSeal is a water-based, asphalt emulsion.' While each coasting could can last up to seven years, they are also pricey, with the estimated cost of $40,000 per mile, the L.A. Daily News reported."
