Revolutionary Paint: How to Make Surfaces Stay Cool in the Sun

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it as an impressive, hands-on DIY demonstration of passive radiative cooling that works in practice.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Tech Ingredients

Topic

radiative cooling paint

Format

tutorial

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

10

Recommendation years in dataset

2023–2026

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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• 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 …

• Technology Connection is a fantastic YouTube channel that shows how to build all sorts of useful things. Their latest video is on passive cooling and very impressive. [VIDEO] Warning: the “senior-engineer; knows how to make stuff” energy from that channel is off the charts. Enough …

• You can check out Tech Ingredients video [0] on the same topic, which will give an answer to your question. It is: Yes, it is better than regular white paint [0] [VIDEO]