Light transmissive variable thermal insulator based on nonimaging optics with potential application in cold climate greenhouses.
Greenhouse structures have demonstrated success enhancing crop yields in farmlands, but the energy for thermal control and lighting make them impractical in cold weather locations because traditional greenhouse construction techniques result in a trade-off between light transmission and thermal insu...
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University of British Columbia
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/51266 |