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2. Reflective surfaces (climate engineering) - Wikipedia

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   The IPCC described GBAM as "whitening roofs, changes in land use management (e.g., no-till farming), change of albedo at a larger scale (covering glaciers or deserts with reflective sheeting and changes in ocean albedo)." [1]: 348 The most well-known type of reflective surface is a type of roof called the "cool roof".

3. Passive solar building design - Wikipedia

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   A roof pond passive solar system, sometimes called a solar roof, uses water stored on the roof to temper hot and cold internal temperatures, usually in desert environments. It typically is constructed of containers holding 6 to 12 in (150 to 300 mm) of water on a flat roof.

4. Deposition (phase transition) - Wikipedia

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   This causes the water vapour to change directly into a solid. Another example is the soot that is deposited on the walls of chimneys. Soot molecules rise from the fire in a hot and gaseous state. When they come into contact with the walls they cool, and change to the solid state, without formation of the liquid state.

5. Resident wants change in decades-old metal roof ban, but HOA ...

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   Question: Our HOA has refused to allow metal roofs (except for metal shingle roofs). When questioned, the HOA president advised me that the original declaration of covenants and restrictions ...

6. Conservatory (greenhouse) - Wikipedia

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   A traditional conservatory at the Horniman Museum in London, now used as a cafe. A modern implementation, Adelaide's Bicentennial Conservatory Conservatory interior in the Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape, Czech Republic. A conservatory is a building or room having glass or other transparent roofing and walls, used as a greenhouse or a ...

7. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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   Cross hipped: The result of joining two or more hip roof sections together, forming a T or L shape for the simplest forms, or any number of more complex shapes. Satari: A Swedish variant on the monitor roof; a double hip roof with a short vertical wall usually with small windows, popular from the 17th century on formal buildings.