How To Make Infrared Cooling Paint (Electricity Free Air Conditioning)

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it as a practical, well-researched DIY demonstration of passive radiative cooling.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

NightHawkInLight

Topic

passive radiative cooling

Format

tutorial

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2022–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• This YouTuber[0] does an excellent job recreating chemistry research from papers and improving on the techniques to be accomplished with household materials. He documents his failures and takes an empirical approach to arriving at his successes. I’m not sure of his background, but it’s certainly …

• Two YouTube researchers[0][1] (they make science content that is very much not in the traditional form of YouTube) have been working on Infrared Cooling Paint for almost a year now and have been detailing how individuals can make it at home (although a fairly involved/lengthy …

• It's a thing in from thousands of years ago [LINK] and today [LINK] for PDRC there are a couple good videos about it from NightHawkInLight [VIDEO] , [LINK] and Tech Ingredients [LINK] [LINK]