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2018-04-18 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

LA Painting Streets White to Combat Climate Change

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Posted by Bobby 2018-04-18 10:10|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Finally, a white solution to something!

Posted by Skidmark 2018-04-18 11:45|| 2018-04-18 11:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Apparently they have never heard of snow blindness either...

Posted by DarthVader 2018-04-18 11:52|| 2018-04-18 11:52|| Front Page Top

#3 How long before it gets too dirty to matter and have to be re-applied?

Posted by Deacon Blues 2018-04-18 11:56|| 2018-04-18 11:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Who has the paint contract?

Posted by Glenmore 2018-04-18 12:03|| 2018-04-18 12:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe someone calculated the energy 'savings'?

Yeah, probably the product salesman (a 'nephew' of one of the LA Street Department bigwigs, no doubt).

Posted by Mullah Richard 2018-04-18 12:03|| 2018-04-18 12:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Concrete would be better.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-04-18 12:30|| 2018-04-18 12:30|| Front Page Top

#7 they are also pricey, with the estimated cost of $40,000 per mile,

Where's the graft in that?? Oh, right there.

Posted by AlanC 2018-04-18 12:47|| 2018-04-18 12:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Grounds unstable ABU.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-04-18 12:47|| 2018-04-18 12:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Grounds unstable ABU.

Along with the state and local govts, and a goodly number of the citizens.

preliminary testing shows has reduced the temperature of roadways by up to 10 degrees.

That is the temp of the road itself. Numbers I saw elsewhere said they expected to reduce the urban heat island effect by 1 degree.

Posted by SteveS 2018-04-18 13:26|| 2018-04-18 13:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Here's your info from the mfr. Note "Dries to a light grey matte finish and does not cause glare."

Nothing about coefficient of friction, which may make for interesting braking.

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2018-04-18 13:47|| 2018-04-18 13:47|| Front Page Top

#11 Our freeways are paved with concrete. In some of the nicer, older residential neighborhoods of San Diego the streets are paved with concrete. Maybe more expensive at first but some of those streets have been like that for many decades. Concrete is far more durable with a lot less potholes than asphalt. Looks a lot nicer too.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-04-18 15:31|| 2018-04-18 15:31|| Front Page Top

#12

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-04-18 15:35|| 2018-04-18 15:35|| Front Page Top

#13 the 'white' asphalt surface treatment initiative began in mid 2017

this treatment is only slightly more expensive than a similar treatment with a darker emulsion

the lighter the surface, the slower the oxy- deterioration of the treatment

so this may work out

finally, some of the basic science and engineering was done in the W administration and initially endorsed by scientists in the Obama admin until the hard core greenies stopped it because it doesn't cause enough suffering

Posted by lord garth 2018-04-18 15:44|| 2018-04-18 15:44|| Front Page Top

#14 Won't the urine and fecal stains take the shine off the pretty roads?

Posted by Roth LaDoad 2018-04-18 16:35|| 2018-04-18 16:35|| Front Page Top

#15 Wait... isn't white asphalt a little... racist?

Posted by CrazyFool 2018-04-18 19:32|| 2018-04-18 19:32|| Front Page Top

#16 Abu - those streets are nice...til the first utility company has to trench for underground or upgraded facilities. We HAVE to use them on really steeply-sloped streets due to asphalt creep during summer heat. Think Pt. Loma, OB, Mission Hills...

Posted by Frank G 2018-04-18 21:53|| 2018-04-18 21:53|| Front Page Top

#17 The problem with concrete is someone idiot always has to sign their name in the stuff before it dries.

If LA was smart they'd sell of the rights for folks to sign and otherwise mark up the sidewalk sections of new concrete streets. Encourage groups to purchase them make a game of it with best design competitions and such. Donate a few for public relations and all that.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-04-18 22:41|| 2018-04-18 22:41|| Front Page Top