| Solar technologies are emerging as the sustainable technology of choice for those commissioning new buildings. Integrated photovoltaics offer huge potential for delivering renewable energy without generating harmful pollutants.
Discussing current market conditions and the economics of this technology, the author balances the physics and engineering background of solar heating, cooling and building integrated photovoltaics with practical applications.
A complete overview of solar technologies relevant to the built environment, this book
- Explains how to integrate solar technology into building design concepts.
- Outlines the use of passive solar energy for daylighting and heating supply.
- Discusses solar thermal energy for heating and cooling as well as photovolatics for electricity production.
- Presents the meteorological background to irradiance calculations.
- Provides engineering planning aids for innovative energy supply systems.
- Contains practical examples and calculation methods to enable component and system simulation.
Solar Technologies for Buildings is an excellent reference for scientists, engineers, planners, researchers and students, involved in developing solar energy systems. Architects integrating solar technologies in building design will find this application-orientated approach useful. |
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 Mind Hacks : Tips & Tricks for Using Your Brain This exploration into the moment-by-moment works of the brain uses cognitive neuroscience to present experiments, tricks, and tips related to vision, motor skills, attention, cognition, subliminal perception. Each "hack" examines specific operations of the brain. By seeing how the brain responds, you'll learn more about how the... | | | | Information Theory and Statistical Learning
This book presents theoretical and practical results of information theoretic methods
used in the context of statistical learning. Its major goal is to advocate and promote
the importance and usefulness of information theoretic concepts for understanding
and developing the sophisticated machine learning methods necessary not only... |
Combating Spyware in the EnterpriseSpyware is a term that in many ways has become a commonly used substitute for many other types of intrusions on a host.To compare it to something in the nontechnical world, it would be similar to asking someone for some aspirin, but in return getting acetaminophen, ibuprofen, or some other pain... | | Pattern Calculus: Computing with Functions and Structures
The pattern calculus is a new foundation for computation, in which the expressive power of functions and of data structures are combined within pattern-matching functions. The best existing foundations focus on either functions, as in the lambda-calculus, or on data structures, as in Turing machines, or on compromises involving both, as in... | | The Object Primer: Agile Model-Driven Development with UML 2.0Completely up-to-date, with all modeling notation rewritten in the just-released UML 2.0, this is the perfect book for any software development professional or student seeking an introduction to the concepts and terminology of object technology.
Scott Ambler, award-winning author of Building Object Applications that Work, Process... |
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