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Phoenix, the hot place

Dixon, like in Illinois? Or the down of Dickskin about 8mi west of Davis..?
 
Yesterday, first day here without the grinding AC on, since I got here from Morro Bay in June.
Phoenix has one or two heat records left to break this year.
Tomorrow the power co. is shutting down my end of town for maintenance for 6 hours.
Whew,
 
Cool coating on residential streets, IS making a difference.
Phoenix has been coating roadways with a reflective coating to reflect solar radiation/heat, trying to reduce the heat island effect.
Last summer they started testing the 130 some odd miles of this, after four years in place, to see if it really works.
They found a direct loss of 10 to 12 * of heat due to reflection. They noted that one can feel the extra heat coming up from the street when crossing. It is a light grey in color with a semi glossy surface, that they squeegee in place. I don't know about traction, motos, and rain, issue.
This positive result should increase the treatments, maybe into parking lots and runways.
 
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When my sister and I were kids and would go to Phoenix to visit our grandparents We swam every day. The pool was across the street from their house. We would see who could walk barefoot across the street the slowest. Usually 3 steps was all it took before we went from a walk to a run. Dumb sibling games.
 
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Cool coating on residential streets, IS making a difference.
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A house near me in the past couple of years repainted their house to be white with black trim. But they also, for lack of a better term, graywashed the roof. It's a ceramic tile roof, but it was a dark tile.

I'm curious if they're noticing any actual net effect of their work manifest through lower energy bills.

I'd also like to see a temperature over time of a white car and a black car in the sun. I'm sure there is one, just curious how much it is.

Just park the cars near each other, drop in a temperature sensor and record it throughout a sunny day.
 
I have shot my airstream with infrared thermometer, inside skin and out.
The readout doesn't match what I feel, that is semi polished aluminum.
I have seen 110 inside skin, 130 out, but I don't burn, if I touch it.
 
This was burning all day, I waited until sunset for the light.
Wasn't on the news at all, yesterday.
Was smelling campfire last nite's pee breaks.
Today ugly yellow sky, fire is between Williams and Flag
 

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Temperatures drop from the 115's.
People from Washington start invading Arizona, , ,
Here and gone, promises made, apologies given, disasters proclaimed, need some Fed money?
I've heard tell that big name tourists are coming in "special" for Halloween, , ,
Like Arizona's candy, IS really special, everybody wants it.

Personally I don't care who gets elected, National or American League
:deadhorse

Rant over
 
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Winter is over in Florida.

In Daytona Beach college students are dropping from hotel balconies, Canadians have sizzled from pasty white to flaming pink, NASCAR fans have finally found their way out of the track and it's almost Bike Week.

Sherriff Chitwood already has the remote holding pens set up, the vendors of black tee shirts are set up, the mountains of beer kegs are set up and I-95 southbound is packed with Harleys strapped down to trailers.

Yes, I'm going. No, I won't be in a black tee shirt. You will find me in 80 degree sunshine watching the historic racing event though. Winter is over.
 
FYI, Az. is looking to replace death by lethal injection, with Firing Squads.
Chemicals are banned or discontinued that DO the job in a timely fashion,
I wonder if marketing that job of trigger puller to victims of the crime, would be a thing to do ?
Taxes are going up, this looks to be an easy sell, , ,
 
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