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New type of solar structure cools buildings in full sunlight - terrafamilia - 04-17-2013
Thought this was interesting
New type of solar structure cools buildings in full sunlight
A Stanford team has designed an entirely new form of cooling panel that works even when the sun is shining. Such a panel could vastly improve the daylight cooling of buildings, cars and other structures by radiating sunlight back into the chilly vacuum of space.
Press release here
http://engineering.stanford.edu/news/new-type-solar-structure-cools-buildings-full-sunlight
and paper here
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl4004283?mi=vwy69k&af=R&pageSize=20&searchText=TiO2+Photonic+crystal
Ciao,
Terrafamilia - who hopes this formatting gobbledygook works.