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Let the Sun Shine In: Redirecting Sunlight to Urban Alleyways
2014-04-14 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
In dense urban centers, many people live and work in dim and narrow streets surrounded by tall buildings that block sunlight. To alleviate the problem, Egyptian researchers have developed a corrugated, translucent panel that is mounted on rooftops and hung over the edge at an angle, where it spreads sunlight onto street below. Researchers describe their design in a paper published in Energy Express, a supplement of The Optical Society’s open-access journal Optics Express. This story is related to the following:Trade Associations
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