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In today’s world, the significance of energy and energy conservation is a common knowledge. Wind towers can save the … electrical energy used to provide thermal comfort during the warm months of the year, especially during the peak hours. In this … major advantage of wind towers is that they are passive systems requiring no energy for operation. Also, wind towers reduce …
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Energy is the building block of modern civilization and a prerequisite for sustainable development. Global energy …. Bangladesh is a developing country in the Southeast Asia, which is one of the lowest per capital energy consuming nation. The … power crisis has become a major constraint to continued economic growth and energy sector of the country is currently facing …
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A recent study suggested that buildings globally consume up to 40% of energy and responsible for half of world … phase is identified to consume the highest energy and concrete responsible for the highest embodied energy. The findings … also suggested that building material with lower embodied energy does not necessarily have lower life cycle energy …
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Africa (NA) countries cooperation on water and clean energy superhighway as the solution to regional energy challenges, water … shortages, climate change and other environmental problems arising from the current fossil-fuel heavy global energy paradigm … quantitative targets for solutions between the growing water crisis in NA and energy resources (fossil and renewables energies (RE …
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sustainability of green building, especially the social sustainability is largely overlooked. Future research opportunities were …
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analysis shows an impressive transformation of China׳s energy metabolism determined by the joining of the WTO in 2001. Since … industrial sector, boosting economic labor productivity as well as total energy consumption. India, on the contrary, lags behind … when considering these factors. Looking at changes in the household sector (energy metabolism associated with final …
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The water sector in Algeria has to date paid scant attention to the issue of climate change and is often unaware of its impact on future water resources. Studies will be needed to assess the impact and cost of climate change and draw up adaptation solutions.
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introduced as an effective method to reduce temperature and energy consumption in cities, its impacts on environmental … sustainability and large-scale non-local effect are inadequately explored. This paper provides a synthetic overview of potential … environmental impacts of reflective materials at a variety of scales, ranging from energy load on a single building to regional …
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solar energy, thermal comfort control, green building, environmental conservation and electronic cooling etc. Tremendous … in the coming time, which is rather useful for a broad range of energy areas. …
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In general, there is a wide range of literature covering the area of thermal comfort, but not a focused literature review of thermal comfort in hospitals has published yet. However, there has been no study on the direct effect of thermal comfort on health. The authors have found a reasonable...
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