The Akademie Mont-Cenis in Germany has a glass roof canopy that create a “micro-climate” for the building’s interior. The roof also features integrated solar cells that produce about 700,000 kWh of energy per year. It is said to be the largest PV installation on a single roof.
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“”The tower will be over there,” Davey says, pointing to a spot a mile distant where a 1,600-foot structure will rise from the ocher-colored earth. Picture a 260-foot-diameter cylinder taller than the Sears Tower encircled by a two-mile-diameter transparent canopy at ground level.”
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Primatologist Dr. Jatna Supriatna scans the treetops in a national park on the island of Java, looking for gibbons. This area is home to about 150 of the remaining 4,000 Java gibbons. These highly acrobatic creatures are easy prey on the ground and live well above it in the jungle canopy.
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Just about any military pilot would kill to get into an F-22 fighter, but one Air Force flier couldn’t get out of one for five hours April 10 before firefighters used a rotary saw to cut him out. “The technical issue has been resolved,” but not before the Air Force spent $82,000 to replace [...]
Positioned as a gateway to China and designed by architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, the terminal will no doubt be a sleek transit destination. What has captured our attention is the incredible double skin canopy intended to let patterned natural light into the space, and significantly reduce energy consumption.
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