City in Sierra Leone covers buildings in mirrors to fight extreme heat

Tens of hundreds of individuals in Freetown, Sierra Leone, stay in casual settlements dense with steel and concrete buildings that lure warmth and make heatwaves extra harmful. An experiment has proven that masking such buildings with an inexpensive mirrored movie can considerably cut back the temperature inside.

Since changing into the chief warmth officer of Freetown in Sierra Leone, Eugenia Kargbo has experimented with every kind of the way to guard the town from warmth. When a gaggle of researchers …