Bio-solar green roofs increase solar energy output: The sunny side of integrating sustainable technologies

Fleck, R.; Gill, Raissa L.; Pettit, Thomas; Torpy, Fraser R.; Irga, Peter J.

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.109703

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“…Since the biosolar and conventional roofs were constructed in different years (2019 and 2017, respectively), they used different types of solar panels. Furthermore, there were other differences between the buildings, which required the data to be adjusted to ensure accurate comparisons [10].…”

Section: Solar Arraysmentioning

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Retracted Article: Biosolar roofs - The trend of the future

Knut,

Kocurkova,

Vranayova

2023

MATEC Web Conf.

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This article shows the different types of biosolar roofs. An important factor that interests me is how a green roof can affect the efficiency of photovoltaics, how it can cool and how much more electricity it can produce than a classic roof. Localized energy generation through rooftop solar is gaining popularity in urban areas, and green roofs are often used for a range of services such as thermal insulation. In recent years, the use of biosolar green roofs to insulate heat and increase solar performance has increased. Two buildings observed by the research team are located in Sydney, Australia, of similar size, location and construction materials. One building has a biosolar roof and the other has a classic solar roof. Each solar array contains a series of environmental sensors including ambient temperature and global horizontal radiation. From the measurement, we can see the results that prove that the biosolar roof had a higher energy output by 4.5%, which proves that it produced 14.26MWh more electricity than the classic solar roof. Compared with previously reported studies and some simulation results, it is clear that the implementation of a bio-solar roof is beneficial for maximizing energy production and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Section: Solar Arraysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Retracted Article: Biosolar roofs - The trend of the future

Knut,

Kocurkova,

Vranayova

2023

MATEC Web Conf.

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“…To the best of our knowledge, our study is the first to highlight the public preferences for this specific amenity. This novel finding could greatly benefit both policy makers and building owners as solar panels placed on GRs provide higher profits from the additional energy generated by the solar panels (Ramshani et al 2020) due to the increased efficiency of the panels (Fleck et al 2022). Another intuitive finding in our paper is the one about the public preferring open access to GRs over limited access, as the choice experiment showed a negative and significant coefficient on limited availability.…”

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Public attitudes and preferences for green rooftop technologies in the US: a choice experiment

Meyer

Trandafir

2023

Agric. Resour. Econom. Rev.

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Green rooftops, also known as vegetated roofs, will play a critical role in enhancing the resilience of urban areas in the face of climate change and other contemporary environmental and social challenges. To ensure the optimal design and implementation of these green technologies, it is vital to understand the public’s preferences, values, and attitudes toward the government support for green rooftops. This study employs contingent valuation methods, specifically utilizing a payment card and a choice experiment, to investigate these topics that have received inadequate exploration within the current body of literature. Our findings indicate that 45% of the public is aware of green rooftops, and the most desired features on an extensive green rooftop, ranked by importance, are: flowers, grass, trees, and walking paths. The majority (79%) of the public supports a federally proposed legislation currently under review (the Public School Green Rooftop Program) and has a mean willingness to pay of approximately $176 per household as a one-time payment. Additionally, the results show that individuals place a higher value on green rooftops that incorporate solar energy technology compared to those without. Furthermore, there is a perceived, loss of value when access to a green rooftop is limited, as opposed to having open access.

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“…Based on the principle of the maximum number and range of coverage of demand points with a threshold value, this model is used to study the maximum coverage of facility points within a given threshold according to the road network data and road traffic speed at all levels when determining the facility points (62)(63)(64). This study mainly measured the coverage of the settlement by epidemic prevention facilities.…”

Section: Maximizing Coverage Range Modelmentioning

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Are the epidemic prevention facilities effective? How cities should choose epidemic prevention facilities: Taking Wuhan as an example

Hua

Ran

2023

Front. Public Health

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The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the limitations of urban public health emergency response capabilities. Taking Wuhan as an example, this study used breakpoint regression, kernel density analysis, overlay analysis, and accessibility analysis from Stata and ArcGIS, and divided epidemic prevention facilities into the basic epidemic prevention facilities (hospitals), and the emergency epidemic prevention facilities (mobile cabin hospitals) for further analysis. The results showed that over 70% of the basic epidemic prevention facilities in Wuhan were located in high density population areas. On the contrary, most of the emergency epidemic prevention facilities were located in low density population areas. The local treatment effect of the implementation of the emergency epidemic prevention facility policy is about 1, indicating that there was a significant impact of emergency epidemic prevention facilities on outbreak control, which passed the bandwidth test. What’s more, the analysis of the accessibility of residential points revealed that more than 67.3% of people from the residential points could arrive at the epidemic prevention facilities within 15 min, and only 0.1% of them took more than 20 min to arrive. Therefore, the epidemic prevention facilities can effectively curb the spread of the epidemic, and people from residential areas can quickly get there. This study summarized the spatial characteristics of epidemic prevention facilities in Wuhan and analyzed the importance of them, thus providing a new perspective for future research on upgrading the city’s comprehensive disaster prevention system.

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Bio-solar green roofs increase solar energy output: The sunny side of integrating sustainable technologies

Cited by 20 publications

References 45 publications

Retracted Article: Biosolar roofs - The trend of the future

Retracted Article: Biosolar roofs - The trend of the future

Public attitudes and preferences for green rooftop technologies in the US: a choice experiment

Are the epidemic prevention facilities effective? How cities should choose epidemic prevention facilities: Taking Wuhan as an example

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