All the processes are in place to protect public health and environment. We do it so it is sustainable “not impacting future generation” except the entire process is blind and signed off as compliant, then insured.
The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) is to protect human health and the environment. They are missing critical data in their strategic planning and will miss their objectives. The research we have completed over many years will allow them second sight of temperature. They use infrared for some incredible images of urban heat, they lose lots of information in their interpretation of the images. Below is an example of limited interpretation and therefore the domino effect in the misinformation.
The thermal image displayed is over Baton Rouge, shows hot rooftops and temperatures they say are as high as 149 F. There isn’t a scale or reference to time of day, outside temperatures but the important part is that it shows super heated building and development. The 149 degree heat has to be generated to reach this temperature. When you are looking at the thermal image of Baton Rouge, you are seeing a plan view(from above) Solar radiation impacts building walls immediately after sunrise and building are super heating the atmosphere 10 minutes after sunrise. www.epa.gov/heatisland/pilot/baton_rouge_thermal.html
The US Environmental Protection Agency isn’t representing buildings as urban heat generators that could be addressed immediately creating millions of tax paying jobs.
https://thermoguy.com/global-warming/heat-gain/
UV is a fast moving wavelength and burns your skin, it excites building finishes depending on absorbency/color. The global warming link will show images of single buildings as well as entire developments super heating the atmosphere. They are Urban Heat Generators before they are heat islands and we are treating the symptoms with electrical waste, more emissions. We are not understanding that each new building is a new heat generator.
Building code in each area should be making this the problem of the developer, not the taxpayer. These buildings are under warranty, function can’t be seen.
I love what the EPA promotes in cool roofs, trees and keeping temperatures down. Temperature balances in the atmosphere are delicate, you can’t chop down everything living and put up dead, absorbent materials that become heat generators while treating the heat symptoms with air conditioning (emissions).
The EPA and others need to understand the importance of staying in sync with nature from a temperature perspective. Paint like the kind on airplanes will work, cool roofs, trees, if you are using air conditioning, you are treating the symptom of the heat with AC(really refrigeration) Using air conditioning in under designed walls will be a potential mold environment with condensation against the walls or ceilings.
Building super heaters with each new building and wasting electricity treating the symptoms with tons of unnecessary greenhouse gases isn’t what Kyoto had in mind. It is what is being achieved, the last coat of paint or finish determines the heat generated. A painter or finisher is not supposed to take the professionals out of the process, if the building is hotter than designed, all calculations from professionals would change, energy consumption calculations would change.