#so ready

[reasonsforhope]

"How can we cool houses without using A/C? Scientists have now discovered that one way would be to turn the roof and walls into a beetle’s shell.

That’s because tiny nanostructures on the beetle’s exoskeleton made of cellulose capture light and send it bouncing around whilst separating it into different wavelengths. This is why they appear to shimmer in greens and purples.

More importantly however, when the same nanostructures are pasted to the outside of a house, they can keep it 7.2°F cooler during the day and 20°F cooler during the night.

Some scientists are worried that too much energy will be used for air-conditioning in a climate that is warmed by 1.5°C, and so are devoting their time to coming up with energy-less ways to cooling homes.

GNN has already reported on ultra-white paint that can keep things cooler, and now scientists at the University of Cambridge are turning to cellulose nanomaterials inspired by nature that would create iridescent houses that are self-cooling.

“The usual way to generate a color is dye, but dye will absorb light and heat up, and that counteracts the cooling effect,” Qingchen Shen, a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge told Fast Company. 

As Shen explains though, color generally absorbs heat, rather than reflects it, but their invention of a thin nanostructure film made of cellulose under a thin film of white was able to generate over 120 watts of cooling power, as much as some air conditioners.

“We wanted to make it cheap,” Shen added. “That’s why we used cellulose-based materials. Cellulose nanocrystals can be extracted from wood or cotton. Cellulose is the most abundant polymer in nature.”

When pasted over walls or rooftops, the material could meaningfully assist in cooling the interior of the house and reduce electricity usage by a fair amount.

The colors could make a house look pretty psychedelic in the sunshine though, so the team is probably better off leaving the marketing for the major coastal cities."

-via Good News Network, 4/4/23

#iridesence #architecture #sustainable architecture #beetles #air conditioning #energy crisis #solarpunk #sustainability #I'm so ready for the iridescent solarpunk buildings revolution yall #so ready

[jbowerherondale]

#jamie bower #jamie campbell bower #bloodmagic #death/rebirth #Friday hurry up #friday can't come soon enough #new era #so ready #gifs #my gifs

[bayleymania]

Am I emotionally prepared to listen Adam Cole evil excuse of why he betrayed Max? No. Am I absolutely ready to overanalyze and overthink every single word he says? Yes.

#aew #Adam Cole #SO READY #lexie speaks

[flutterofpapillons]

#so ready

[bloodpen-to-paper]

Which one of you mfs was gonna tell me Pierre knows about Forever being forced on the Happy Pills? Which one of you mother fuckers-

#i've been waiting #for MONTHS #for people to find out about this #i am #so ready #mcyt #qsmp #forever player #aypierre

[me-sploh-rada-imas]

can't wait for all the angles we're gonna get in the next few days and the bts footage from the drive!

#joker out #so ready

[tawus]

Those who know, know

#gintama #gintama 2023 #kagura's hair accessories are what helped me tho 😭 #either way this was the good news of the week #cant wait #so ready #my body is Gintoki's #sakata gintoki #kagura #shimura shinpachi #gintama gintoki

[emolatinaa]

So excited I just made my tattoo appointment for next Saturday as my birthday present 🥳🥳 I’ve been wanting this tattoo for yearssss ahhh

#so ready #and I found a queer tattoo shop and my artist is queer 🥹 #tattoo therapy to help relieve some of the grief and pain

[brielarsonist]

florence's stylist posted a sneak peak of her look for tonight and I am so ready for this

#SO READY #oscars 2024

[opheliaintherushes]

How nice of Masters of the Air to give us the goods next week (Rosie!) because that was some hour of television. Interestingly, the mostly anonymous fates of the airmen make it even more brutal to me as a viewer, since people came through the ranks and died so fast that no one even had time to learn their names.

#think the man in Yossarian's tent #phew #another heart in throat episode #excited to see some partisan action since we've only had a brief glimpse before #but most ready for Rosie #so ready #Masters of the Air

[syddsatyrn]

AHHHHH I'm so excited for the new episodes! I can't wait to watch them after I order PIZZA.

#syddsaysstuff #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel charlie #alastor hazbin hotel #im screaming #so ready

[be-the-glenn-to-my-maggie]

Just so you all know, this blog is about to take an abrupt turn and become a Percy Jackson blog. Then a few months after that we pivot hard into Avatar the Last Airbender. I DO make the rules here, and those are the rules. Get all your Avatar asks in, because while I'm sure I'll still answer them and be into them, the hyperfixations will def change.

Also, I have early screening tickets to the first two episodes of the Percy Jackson show. If you have been here for a long time, you'll remember this from when It 2019 came out. I do intend to liveblog it a little (more on the 20th), and I will be tagging that shit as pjo spoilers, percy jackson spoilers, and melissa liveblogs pjo. Block one or all of those tags if you don't wish to get spoilers! Hope you all come on this journey with me!

#i just reread the book in a day i'm ready bro #so ready #merry fucking christmas guys #melissa on pjo #melissa on atla #melissa og #melissa bullshit

[a7estrellas]

Wearing my favorite pin for TBOSAS, it feels like 2013 again 🥹

#so ready #finished the book just in time haha

[deviouslittlecreature]

There's 35 days until my top surgery

There's 35 days until my top surgery

THERES 35 DAYS UNTIL MY TOP SURGERY!!!!!!!!!

#trans stuff #trans things #trans ftm #transgender #trans man #top surgery #i'm excited #so excited #so ready #bring it on #i cant wait #exciting #super happy #overjoyed

[rogue-indshadows]

Who's ready for some romance ?? I know I am. 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤💘🍁🍂📖📚

#2024 #book lover #booklr #bibilophile #bookblog #bookstagram #romance books #romance reader #books to read #bookshelf #books & libraries #romance for life #so ready #dancing #joyful #🏳‍🌈📖 #📖📚 #book recommendations #book tumblr #booktok books #new books

[gunsatthaphan]

I honestly expected The Eclipse to be one of the more normal ourskyy2 episodes but based on the trailer it looks like it is going to be on just as much crack as the rest of them lol

tbh judging from the trailer I feel like The Eclipse eps will be the only crack-induced ones fdjkhgdf. the others looked pretty normal to me except for NLMG but I could be wrong.

either way I'm yelling because what the hell are these costumes dkjhgfd. I'm so excited though. it's gonna be glorious I can feel it.

xxx

#our skyy 2 #akkayan #firstkhao #gmmtv #SO ready #but also why wed+thur 😭 #i hate that time slot #so inconvenient #UGHHHH #whatever #also unrelated but can I just say how disgustingly adorable puentalay look in that trailer 🥺😩 #im so excited to see them!!!!!