I was sent an article from Forbes about Carbon Credits and government stimulus for weatherization because it (somewhat uniquely) contains a link directly to the Stanford OTL TechFinder, the portal that showcases new and interesting discoveries from Stanford. I was surprised and pleased to see that this innovation was from a team at Santa Clara University, and Stanford handles IP licensing for SCU. It is nice to see the Silicon Valley ecosystem working together to bring smart sensors to improve home thermal monitoring.
The important point in this post is to highlight a subtle but nice thing about widgets integrated into the TechFinder website (which we are now beta testing). The red tags in the "call out" pop up box perform a
smart tag search within the TechFinder site. For example clicking "Building Efficiency", as shown above, will deliver you to a TechFinder
page with three new innovtions including "Photonic panels for passive daytime cooling". Try it by going to the page and clicking the green box, then the tag.
Now this technology sounds very cool, so to speak, and is indeed worth a look. See the TechFinder
page and read the Stanford Report linked below.
Stanford scientists develop new type of solar structure that 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.
Read the article at the Stanford Report.
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