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Advances and challenges in commercializing radiative cooling [PDF]

, 2019
Radiative cooling (RC) dissipates terrestrial heat to outer space through the atmospheric window, without external energy input and production of environmental pollutants. More and more efforts have been devoted to this clean promising cooling technology;
Feng, W, Liu, J, Zhang, J, Zhou, Z, Zuo, J   +4 more
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The Hidden Costs of Coffee Production in the Eastern African Value Chains

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is increasing recognition that significant hidden costs associated with agrifood systems are not reflected in market prices. Coffee is among the three most traded agricultural commodities in the world and supports the livelihoods of more than 30 million smallholder households.
Annet Adong, Lukas Kornher, Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu, Aslihan Arslan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Promotion of cool roofs ιn the EU-the cool roofs project

Summarization: Cool roofs technology is an energy efficient, financially viable and sustainable solution for mitigating the heat island effect and its consequences and for reducing building energy consumption for cooling. This technology is well known and applied in the U.S.: it is a part of the energy code in many states, organizations like the ...
Synnefa Afroditi (), Santamouris Mat(), Κολοκοτσα Διονυσια(http://users.isc.tuc.gr/~dkolokotsa), Kolokotsa Dionysia(http://users.isc.tuc.gr/~dkolokotsa)   +3 more
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In-situ U-value-measurements of wood frame roofs: analysis of deviations between measured and design performance [PDF]

, 2013
The hygrothermal performance of various lightweight sloped roof designs was monitored in the KULeuven VLIET testbuilding for 2 years (Janssens et al. 1998). One of the aims of the investigation was to evaluate whether the design U-value of 0.18 W/m²K was
Janssens, Arnold
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Urban Heat and Spatial Statistics, Toward Sustainable Cities and Society: A PRISMA‐Based Systematic Review and Empirical Assessment (2020–2025)

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past few decades, the intensification of global warming has brought increased attention to urban thermal dynamics, particularly regarding Land Surface Temperature (LST) and the Urban Surface Heat Island (SUHI) effect. This study conducts a systematic literature review alongside a bibliometric analysis of 123 peer‐reviewed articles ...
David Hidalgo‐García, Hamed Rezapouraghdam, Antonio Jesús Aguilar‐Aguilera, María Luísa de la Hoz‐Torres, Rubén López‐Cantero   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Sensitive Thermoelectric Respiratory Sensor Using a Hollow‐Square Structure of Cubic Silicon Carbide‐Based Heterojunction

Small, EarlyView.
A sensitive self‐powered respiratory sensor is developed using a hollow‐window structure implemented on a 3C‐SiC/Si heterojunction‐based platform. This design enables the manipulation of thermal transport with the heterojunction regulating the flow of thermally generated charge carriers, yielding a significantly higher output thermal voltage than that ...
Thi Lap Tran, Duy Van Nguyen, The Lai Khanh, Thien Hoang, Toan Trong Tran, Pingan Song, Nam‐Trung Nguyen, Dzung Viet Dao, John Bell, Ravinesh C. Deo, Toan Dinh   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

A mixed-method comparative analysis of sustainable roofing solutions for thermal and energy efficiency in residential buildings in Saudi Arabia

Results in Engineering
There is a growing need for practical solutions that are climate responsive, particularly in hot arid regions like Saudi Arabia. This study explores the potential of four sustainable roofing strategies, namely: green roof (GR), cool roof (CR), solar PV ...
Raheemat O. Yussuf, Omar S. Asfour, Ahmed Abd El Fattah, Muhammad Asif   +3 more
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A Roof of One\u27s Own: Widow Walking in the Anthropocene [PDF]

, 2018
A nonfiction work that explores widow\u27s walks in a time of climate change on the coasts.
Mullen, Anna C
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The clashing of in situ and pre‐cast technologies—Western trends and local traditions in concrete engineering shaping shell construction in 20th‐century Hungary

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract After a blossoming pre‐World War II (WWII) period, the concrete construction industry in then‐socialist Hungary existed in a relative isolation from the Western World during the mid‐20th century. In this paper, we focus on the body of work of one of the then newly established state‐owned design offices, IPARTERV, to show how the isolation ...
Orsolya Gáspár, Péter Haba
wiley   +1 more source

Solar Architecture: Designing Buildings to Use Solar Energy for Heating, Cooling, and Lighting [PDF]

, 2006
Key facts: - Simple architectural modifications allow residential and commercial buildings to use solar energy directly for heating, cooling, and lighting.

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