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Cool Stuff Daily

Thu. 09/09 - Roof Panels That Cool Your Home, No A/C Required!

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Forget air conditioners, give me radiative cooling panels on my roof! That’s what I hope I’ll be saying a few years from now. Plus, a new species of giant carnivorous dinosaur with shark-like teeth has been identified. And Moderna has announced they’re moving forward with their COVID-19 and seasonal flu combo vaccine. Links: Can nanoscience help make AC more efficient? (Popular Science) Designing an Air Conditioner That Doesn't Heat the Earth (Architect Magazine) Radiative cooling and solar heating from one system, no electricity needed (Science Daily)  New, Giant Carnivorous Dinosaur Was a Terror to Smaller Tyrannosaurs (Smithsonian Mag) Gigantic 'shark-toothed' dinosaur discovered in Uzbekistan (Live Science) Moderna shares rise after company reveals single-shot vaccine booster for Covid and flu (CNBC) Moderna working on combination COVID-19 vaccine booster and flu shot (Reuters) Moderna developing a combo booster shot for Covid and flu (NBC News) 7.00 ("COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 and the Pandemic") (MIT) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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welcome to the cotkey ride home for Thursday, September 9th, 2021.

0:40.5

I'm Jackson Bird today.

0:42.7

Forget air conditioners.

0:44.1

Give me radiative cooling panels on my roof.

0:47.5

That's what I hope I'll be saying a few years from now.

0:50.2

Plus, a new species of giant carnivorous dinosaur with shark-like teeth has been identified.

0:57.8

And Moderna has announced their moving forward with their COVID-19 and seasonal flu combo vaccine.

1:06.0

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:11.6

I've talked a lot about air conditioning on this show.

1:14.9

The history of it, the innovations in the field, and the future of it.

1:18.7

Specifically with regards to our need to find more sustainable solutions, since more and

1:23.1

more places are going to require some form of cooling as extreme temperatures continue to become more

1:28.1

common, but also the more we use the energy-heavy, refrigerant-reliant devices, the worse it is

1:35.3

for the environment. Last month, Architect Magazine outlined a few companies working on some

1:40.4

possible solutions. There's a San Francisco-based startup with a slickly designed window

1:45.9

unit that both heats and cools using heat pump technology, and they say it would reduce a

1:51.5

household's carbon footprint by 75% compared to conventional systems. And as a bonus, it hangs off

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