Solar energy and nanotechnology - new developments for use in the future

CHŁODNICTWO ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-24
Author(s):  
Jan Barwicki
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
New Developments ◽  
The Future

A discussion on building technology in the 1980s - Defining new materials for the 1980s

1972 ◽  
Vol 272 (1229) ◽  
pp. 579-584
Keyword(s):  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Building Science ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Building Research ◽  
Building Technology ◽  
The Future ◽  
Point Of Departure

The author’s point of departure is that building today is the early architecture of the age of science. It increasingly uses scientific methods and technologies of science. Consequently there are many pressures and necessities to innovate, but resistances exist in the form of inertia of the industry, the educational deficiencies of the professions and constructors, the demanding conditions for trouble-free design and construction, and the penalties now consequent upon trouble. In order to open the way for safe innovation there has been a shift towards regulation by performance criteria in place of the former definition by specific requirements; and in order to assess performance in advance of experience, a systematic evaluation is now available. The existence of these two developments has been made possible by the growth of building science, and they in turn define the monitoring and feed-back of experience as important functions of building research for the future. There is a need and capability developing to analyse building problems with increasing precision in several directions, and the process often defines new needs for materials and techniques. This is a centreto-periphery process, and the reverse also takes place, where product makers thrust into the market innovations which result from some matching of fresh ideas to apparent needs. In all cases the needs are defined consciously or unconsciously from the context of the subsystem within which the product or component will function. Buildings are always systems comprising many subsystems. Examples are then given of directions in which the author foresees needs for new developments being defined.

Solar Energy: A Challenge to the Future

Nature ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 180 (4577) ◽  
pp. 115-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAROLD HEYWOOD
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
The Future

Applications of Nanotechnology in Green Energy Manufacturing

2012 ◽  
Vol 442 ◽  
pp. 35-39
Author(s):  
Jian Rong Chen ◽  
Qi Hong
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Geothermal Energy ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Green Manufacturing ◽  
Green Energy ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
Improvement Strategy ◽  
The Future ◽  
Remarkable Progress

Green manufacturing is part of the continuous improvement strategy and green energy is indispensable to carry out green manufacturing because manufacturing is energy intensive. Green energy manufacturing is not easy to carry out with conventional means, but with the introduction of nanotechnology, many technical bottlenecks of green energy manufacturing can be resolved. This paper discussed the applications of nanotechnology in green energy manufacturing, especially in the manufacturing of several typical green energy such as solar energy, nuclear energy, biomass energy and geothermal energy, and then pointed out that nanotechnology was helpful to eliminate the technical bottlenecks of green energy manufacturing. Finally, with looking forward to the future, conclusion was drown that by the use of nanotechnology in green energy manufacturing, the supply of green energy would go up to a great new level and the green energy manufacturing would get remarkable progress.

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