
This past October, taking a walk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., might have been more like taking a walk into the future. Twenty solar-powered homes were sprawled across the mall’s west end, transforming it from a park into something that resembled an innovative new housing development. Park purists take note: the transformation was [...]
While 42 million solar thermal systems have been installed worldwide, the U.S. has been slow to adopt this technology. However, the U.S. sentiment is changing. As the nation’s focus on renewable energy continues to grow exponentially, the expectation is that so too will the adoption of solar thermal technology (which include solar air and water [...]
A U.S.company has developed the world’s only commercially available, electronically “tintable” window glass. SageGlass® allows natural light in while controlling unwanted solar heat and glare and can be used in building windows, skylights, and curtain walls. The technology consists of a series of thin ceramic material layers deposited onto sheets of glass, forming an electrochromic device [...]
Mar 7 2010 | Posted in
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