In his essay “Low cost, energy-saving radiative cooling system ready for real world

application”, Trent Knoss discusses about an innovative cooling system that have been done
by the engineers. Knoss tells us that nowadays the engineers have a outstanding achievement
by improving cooling system for buildings. This improvement include maximize power plant’s
effectiveness but still care to the nature. Knoss gives us five significant advantages by using
this cooling system over conventional air conditioning system.

The first advantages Knoss gives us is “this cooling system just like kind of natural air
contioning” (ph. 2). It is all because the cooling system use low-cost hybrid organic-inorganic
radiative cooling metamaterial. This metamaterial can reduce the object’s -- things that covered
by metamaterial -- temperature even though in the midday sun. When it applied to the objects,
the metamaterial will throw the sun thermal radiate back to the atmosphere and spread out as
much as possible the sun thermal radiate that still absorbed by the object in infrared thermal
form. On the other side that make different between metamaterial dan coventional air
conditioning is metamaterial do not use freon that we know freon’s air conditioning take part
in global warming and depletion of the ozone layer. So by use metamaterial we can reduce that.

The second advantages is “the material, which we can now produce at low cost using the
current roll-to-roll manufacturing techniques, offer significant advantages” (ph. 7). It is very
affordable consider that only 10-20 square meters metamaterial with no more thickness than
alumunium foil able to cool down single family house in summer. This material can be produce
economically, so this advantages give different potential to metamaterial be produced in large
scale for residential or commercial applications.

The third advantages Knoss tells us is “significant advantages over the conventional air
conditioning systems, which require high amounts of electricity to function” (ph. 8). This
metamaterial use no electricity to function, just put the metamaterial on your rooftops and it
will be work by itself. In the different side, conventional air conditioning -- for example -- use
electricity to function.

In situation where the temperature is very high we do need air conditioning, but we need
a new technology that able to replace this conventional air conditioning without reduce it’s
function because conventional air conditioning was less enviromentally friendly. The engineers
was found technology that able to replace conventional air conditioning called metamaterial.
By using metamaterial we will get some advantages more than conventional one. First
advantages is metamaterial just like more eco friendly air conditioning. Second, metamaterial
need low cost to produce that conventional one. Third, it is do not need electricity to work. By
this advantages we know that metamaterial is better technology to be used than conventional
air conditioning. Knoss’s essay is a good describer about metamaterial technology.