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2. Passive solar building design - Wikipedia

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   Movable shutters, shades, shade screens, or window quilts can accommodate day-to-day and hour-to-hour solar gain and insulation requirements. Careful arrangement of rooms completes the passive solar design. A common recommendation for residential dwellings is to place living areas facing solar noon and sleeping quarters on the opposite side. [9]

3. Appropriate technology - Wikipedia

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   Despite these early examples, Dr. Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher is credited as the founder of the appropriate technology movement. A well-known economist, Schumacher worked for the British National Coal Board for more than 20 years, where he blamed the size of the industry's operations for its uncaring response to the harm black-lung disease inflicted on the miners. [3]

4. List of appropriate technology applications - Wikipedia

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   Some appropriate technology water supply measures include: Deep wells with submersible pumps in areas where the groundwater (aquifers) are located at depths >10 m. Shallow wells with lined walls and covers. Rainwater harvesting systems with an appropriate method of storage, especially in areas with significant dry seasons.

5. Smart glass - Wikipedia

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   Some smart windows can self-adapt to heat or cool for energy conservation in buildings. [5] [6] [7] Smart windows can eliminate the need for blinds, shades or window treatments. [8] Some effects can be obtained by laminating smart film or switchable film onto flat surfaces using glass, acrylic or polycarbonate laminates. [9]

6. Open-source appropriate technology - Wikipedia

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   Appropriate technology is designed to promote decentralized, labor-intensive, energy-efficient and environmentally sound businesses. [24] Carroll Pursell says that the movement declined from 1965 to 1985, due to an inability to counter advocates of agribusiness , large private utilities, and multinational construction companies. [ 25 ]

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8. Glass in green buildings - Wikipedia

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   Solar control glass can be an eye-catching characteristic of a building whilst at the same time diminishing, or even eradicating the need for an air-conditioning system, reducing running costs of the building and saving energy.

9. Centre for Window and Cladding Technology - Wikipedia

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   The Centre for Window and Cladding Technology (CWCT) is a publisher of standards and guidance only (not regulations), on corrosion, intrusion, fenestration, weather and fire resistance, acoustic and impact performance, of building envelopes, facades, cladding and glazing.