Renewable energy: solar
Photovoltaic panels may one day be integrated into homes.
Sun energy, on the surface of earth: 1.73E14 kW, 1.5E18 kWh/year, 1.9E14 cet (coal equivalent tons). It is 10,000 times the total world consumption.
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Advanced Buildings- Excellent: A building professional's guide to more than 90 environmentally-appropriate technologies and practices.
BTC - Buildings Technology Center- "to identify, develop, and deploy sustainable and energy-efficient building system technologies by forming partnerships between the public sector and private industry for analysis, well-characterized experiments, technology development, and market outreach. "
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- Development of thermal-photovoltaic hybrid exterior wallboards incorporating PV cells in and their winter performances , by Nagano, K., Mochida, T., Shimakura, K., Murashita, K. and Taka, S., 2003
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- Identification of barriers to the building integrated photovoltaic design process as applied to curtain-wall, by Sozer, H., 2002
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- Review of passive solar heating and cooling technologies, by Chan, H., Riffat, S. B. and Zhu, J., 2010
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- Solar energy fundamentals and modeling techniques - atmosphere, environment, climate change and renewable energy, by Sen, Z., 2008
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- Sustainable design for a building "skin", by CCE, 2001
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- The impact of building-integrated photovoltaics on the energy demand of multi-family dwellings in Brazil, by Ordenes, M., Marinoski, D. L., Braun, P. and R¨šther, R., 2007
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- The solar envelope: its meaning for energy and buildings, Building form and environmental performance: archetypes, analysis and an arid climate, by Knowles, R. L., Ratti, C., Raydan, D. and Steemers, K., 2003