NDLI: The super-efficient passive building frontier

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Lovins, A.
Copyright Year	1996
Description	Author affiliation: Hypercar Center, Rocky Mountain Inst., Old Snowmass, CO, USA (Lovins, A.)
Abstract	The author looks ahead to the next century and suggests that what this century has been preparing us for is not just a linear view of progress, but a cyclic view of progress in which we rediscover much forgotten wisdom. He predicts that in the next century of mechanical design pressures capital and energy costs, environmental performance, and operability will rapidly shift designs from active to passive, from formulaic to uniquely optimized, and from complex to simple. He suggests that integrated whole-building design yield superior comfort with about three to thirty times less energy and often with lower capital costs, but that this poses fundamental challenges to professional education and practice and to compensation structure. As an example he describes a house that has been built in Davis, California using some of the novel design principles mentioned. It was done as part of the Pacific Gas and Electric ACT/sup 2/ experiment.
Starting Page	387
Ending Page	389
File Size	2528211
Page Count	3
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780331966
DOI	10.1109/AERO.1996.495992
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1998-02-10
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Energy efficiency Water heating Cooling Cost function Buildings Refrigeration Power engineering and energy Insulation Furnaces Air conditioning
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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