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An apparatus that replicates the solar spectrum, and used for testing solar energy conversion devices.
Industry:Energy
An approximate unit of heat produced by a resting person, equal to about 18.5 Btu per square foot per hour.
Industry:Energy
An architectural design (also known as the double envelope house), sometimes called a "house-within-a-house," that employs a double envelope with a continuous airspace of at least 6 to 12 inches on the north wall, south wall, roof, and floor, achieved by building inner and outer walls, a crawl space or sub-basement below the floor, and a shallow attic space below the weather roof. The east and west walls are single, conventional walls. A buffer zone of solar-heated, circulating air warms the inner envelope of the house. The south-facing airspace may double as a sunspace or greenhouse.
Industry:Energy
An architectural design invented by Buckminster Fuller with a regular polygonal structure based on radial symmetry.
Industry:Energy
An architectural element for shading windows and wall surfaces placed on the exterior of a building; can be fixed or movable.
Industry:Energy
An architectural feature used to shade exterior walls; usually made of a lattice of metal or wood; often covered by vines to provide additional summertime shading.
Industry:Energy
An area within the interior space of a building, such as an individual room(s), to be cooled, heated, or ventilated. A zone has its own thermostat to control the flow of conditioned air into the space.
Industry:Energy
An arrangement of photovoltaic cells or material mounted on a rigid flat surface with the cells exposed freely to incoming sunlight.
Industry:Energy
