The cost of eroding coasts: The Reengineer Monitor #59
Solar heat-hearvesting dome, fungus insulation - and more!
Heating and cooling
It’s possible to harvest heat from bright skies above say researchers in the US. They’ve come up with a system that collects light and heat via a dome on your roof: “Sunlight is collected by a rooftop solar dome and guided into a Photothermal Solar Tunnel, which achieves efficient conversion of solar radiation into thermal energy for passive heating.”
