Many new developments in Melbourne suffer from lack of trees to cool yards and houses during the heat of summer. First thing is to plant trees, but an interesting side-effect of having solar panels on a dark roof is that they reflect a certain amount of heat away from the roof and the space beneath the panels acts as a wind tunnel. I have certainly noticed this at my house and have checked the science behind it because I thought I may have imagined the effect.
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