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1 HN user recommended this tutorial1 month2023–2025 score 1
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

HN points to it in threads on radiative cooling as a hands-on explanation of passive daytime cooling.

Tech Ingredients shows how to build a liquid panel with a specialty paint that, placed outside, cools below ambient air temperature. It demonstrates radiative sky cooling.

“there are a couple good videos about it from NightHawkInLight” (HN, 2025)

1 recommendations · 3 citations · Tutorials

4 Hacker News comments

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@jcims Mar 2023 Cites it
on HN thread Just How White Can White Paint Get?
>Only active cooling can cool anything below the ambient temperature. Not exactly: [link] Couple of videos explaining the effect [link] [this video]
Explains cooling below ambient temperature

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