Solar-collecting Method to Cool Buildings
University of California, Merced officials are trying a new method of cooling buildings. By concentrating solar collectors, temperatures of 400 degrees are achieved. When this technology,which is developed by professor Roland Winston,is operational,the solar array will heat an environmentally friendly mineral oil that will be circulated through a system of tubes connected to "cooling machine" that will produce cool water and, finally, cool air.
UC Merced was awarded a $2.25 million grant from the University of California Office of Research to be the lead agency in the California Alternative Solar Technologies Institute.A demonstration will take place in a couple of months and the system will be used to cool a 16-by-12-foot trailer, he said.
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UC Merced was awarded a $2.25 million grant from the University of California Office of Research to be the lead agency in the California Alternative Solar Technologies Institute.A demonstration will take place in a couple of months and the system will be used to cool a 16-by-12-foot trailer, he said.
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