If you live within eye level of the street or in close quarters with other homes, privacy may be a concern of yours. Would you like more privacy but you don't want to hide your window's natural light? Having daylight indoors can do so much ...
Concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar system maker Soitec of Bernin, France has installed a CPV demonstration plant in the isolated village of Usib near Rehoboth in central Namibia. The 25kW installation has been connected to the grid of ...
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Stefano Pertegato’s Luminarium ceiling light allows its users to be able to enjoy a full day of normal sunlight, even in a room with no windows. The Luminarium is designed to mimic the patterns of the sun, where most lamps are ...
When Interoil Corporation began to build a new staff housing village at their refinery complex outside of Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea, they knew that street light was going to be a challenge. Not only was the local electricity grid ...
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Q: What is daylighting? A: Daylighting refers to using the direct and reflected sunlight to naturally illuminate building interiors. Many people choose to incorporate daylighting into their interior designs to capture the warm lighting ...
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Outdoor downlights that produce only longer-wavelength light using amber LEDs ensure that hatchling turtles aren't attracted away from the ocean. Dasal Architectural Lighting has announced two outdoor LED-based downlights that are ...
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Architecture studio Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP has designed the “Optical Glass House” in Hiroshima, Japan, that aims to acoustically protect residents from the main road outside, whilst providing light and views for the residents ...
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LEDs are extremely efficient, and when it comes to single colors such as red or green commonly used in traffic lights or toys, they can’t be beat. But those aren’t the colors we want to light up our homes and offices. Our eyes ...
Tags: Lab-Grown Crystals, LEDs
In an effort to reduce the carbon footprint, this building utilizes light from the sun while providing an exceptional amount of privacy. From the outside this may just look like an ordinary brick building, however as you move closer you may ...
Dave Roberts, left, Comfort Solutions, and keynote speaker Scott Bedbury. CHANDLER, Ariz. - Scott Bedbury, the marketing guru who helped build Nike and Starbucks into household brands, brought his playbook to Furniture/Today's Bedding ...
Artificial turf is a surface of synthetic fibers made to look like natural grass. It is most often used in arenas for sports that were originally or are normally played on grass. However, it is now being used on residential lawns and ...
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Baseball Artificial turf was first used in Major League Baseball in the Houston Astrodome in 1966, replacing the grass field used when the stadium opened a year earlier. Even though the grass was specifically bred for indoor use, the ...
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Light-emitting diodes, better known as LEDs, offer substantial energy savings over incandescent and fluorescent lights and are easily produced in single colors such as red or green commonly used in traffic lights or children's toys. ...
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In an industry project with concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar system maker Soitec of Bernin, France, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) in Freiburg, Germany is developing a new generation of multi-junction solar cells ...
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Artificial turf is a surface of synthetic fibers made to look like natural grass. It is most often used in arenas for sports that were originally or are normally played on grass. However, it is now being used on residential lawns and ...
Tags: Artificial Turf, Artificial Grass