Radiative sky cooling passively rejects heat from a surface out into space via an atmospheric transparency window, enabling sub-ambient cooling. Goldstein et al. exploit this to show daytime cooling of water by up to 5 ∘C below ambient temperature, equivalent to a heat rejection flux of 70 Wm−2.
- Eli A. Goldstein
- Aaswath P. Raman
- Shanhui Fan