Conference: CAS-Climate: Ambient Energy for Buildings (AEB) Workshop: Beyond Energy Efficiency

会议：CAS-气候：建筑环境能源 (AEB) 研讨会：超越能源效率

• 批准号: 2318673
• 负责人: Brian Robinson
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Louisville Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-15 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2318673&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; CAS; Climate; Ambient; Energy

A workshop will be held to discuss opportunities and strategies for promoting ambient energy use in buildings. Experts in ambient energy systems and materials, design, construction, marketing, finance, policy and social science will be assembled to provide their perspectives. The result of the workshop is to be a white paper outlining needs in research, education, and dissemination to increase the use of ambient energy and, thereby, help address the looming climate crisis. The workshop is to be held at DOE in Washington DC, tentatively during July 2023. Buildings account for nearly half of US carbon emissions. Further, emissions are projected to increase due to the doubling of built floor area by 2060. All-electric net-zero buildings will not solve the problem, because utilities are expected to still burn fossil fuel for nearly half of all electricity by 2050. Locally harvested ambient energy offers a transformational alternative. Nearly ten times more solar energy is incident on buildings than they consume. A number of historic and modern buildings have been heated and cooled entirely from ambient sources. Solar energy can also heat water, dry clothes, cook food, and provide lighting. 100% solar heating has been proven by numerous buildings over many decades. For current technologies, more wide-spread adoption may require innovations in education, training, marketing, and incentives. Thermal, economic and environmental performance could be advanced by new technologies, including heat pipe systems, polymeric solar collectors, phase change materials, transparent insulation, vacuum-insulated panels, and electrochromic surfaces. Adoption could be enhanced with improved design tools and incorporation into building performance standards and codes. It is estimated that with local ambient energy systems serving demands for which they are well-suited, the remaining need for utility-level electricity could be smaller in 2050 than it is today. The workshop will discuss opportunities and strategies for promoting ambient energy use in buildings.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

将举办研讨会，讨论促进建筑物环境能源使用的机会和策略。环境能源系统和材料、设计、施工、营销、金融、政策和社会科学领域的专家将齐聚一堂，提供他们的观点。研讨会的成果是一份白皮书，概述了研究、教育和传播方面的需求，以增加环境能源的使用，从而帮助解决迫在眉睫的气候危机。该研讨会暂定于 2023 年 7 月在华盛顿特区能源部举行。建筑物排放量占美国碳排放量的近一半。此外，到 2060 年，由于建筑面积增加一倍，排放量预计将增加。全电力零净建筑无法解决问题，因为预计到 2050 年，公用事业公司仍将燃烧化石燃料来提供近一半的电力。收集的环境能量提供了一种变革性的替代方案。入射到建筑物上的太阳能量比其消耗的太阳能量多出近十倍。许多历史和现代建筑完全由环境资源供暖和制冷。太阳能还可以加热水、烘干衣服、烹饪食物和提供照明。数十年来，100% 太阳能供暖已被无数建筑物所证明。对于当前的技术来说，更广泛的采用可能需要在教育、培训、营销和激励方面进行创新。新技术可以提高热力、经济和环境性能，包括热管系统、聚合物太阳能集热器、相变材料、透明绝缘材料、真空绝缘板和电致变色表面。通过改进设计工具并将其纳入建筑性能标准和规范，可以提高采用率。据估计，随着当地环境能源系统能够满足其非常适合的需求，到 2050 年，对公用事业级电力的剩余需求可能会比现在更少。研讨会将讨论促进建筑物环境能源使用的机会和策略。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。