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The recent findings on temperature variability in Greenland for the last 150,000 years are discussed and related to the threat of greenhouse warming from CO2. Then we describe three cost-effective technologies for saving energy and hence CO2: they are “heat mirror” and “selective” windows, efficient lighting, and many technologies for reducing cooling demand, some as simple as white paint.
In this lecture I cover three areas of strength at LBL (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory). But first I’ll try to motivate you with an update on the threat of climate change brought on by CO2 from burning fossil fuel.
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Rosenfeld, A.H. (1994). Climate Change, Windows, Lighting, and Cooling. In: de Almeida, A.T., Rosenfeld, A.H., Roturier, J., Norgard, J. (eds) Integrated Electricity Resource Planning. NATO ASI Series, vol 261. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1054-9_6
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