Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) are currently working with creative chemistry, which is a polymer heat-reflective coating that can be painted on window. It has been estimated that 10% of the total energy utilized in buildings across the US can be attributed to window performance, costing building owners around US$50 bln every year, yet the increasing cost of retrofitting windows or replacing them with an energy efficient coating seem to be a major hindrance. A team of scientists from Berkeley Lab are receiving part of a US$3.95 mln award from the DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop this new product.
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