CoolGlass: Mass producible and durable radiative cooling glass panels

问题：室内空间冷却是实现良好健康和福祉的基本手段，因为它与人体舒适度、生产力水平的提高以及随之而来的健康益处直接相关。它对人们生活的影响如此之大，以至于正如最近所争论的那样，要实现联合国所有17项可持续发展目标，或多或少都取决于绿色制冷技术的及时推广。然而，冷却也有其黑暗的一面，它是与人类活动相关的最耗能、污染最严重的过程之一。统计数字令人震惊；空调和电风扇消耗的能源约占全球建筑物总用电量的20%，每年排放二氧化碳120亿吨。解决方案：为了解决冷却难题，我提出了一种新的辐射冷却技术。提出的解决方案利用了寒冷宇宙的无限热容量，将其转化为取之不尽的储存库，用于储存地球上建筑、运输和其他人造环境的废热。CoolGlass开发的产品将采用由薄的低铁玻璃板制成的辐射冷却板的形式。CoolGlass技术带来的主要优势是：i)与工业大规模制造方法完全兼容。ii)无与伦比的耐久性。iii)与其他竞争辐射冷却技术相比，制冷量优越。iv)设计灵活性，以及v)良好的可持续性前景。总体而言，CoolGlass将零投入能源和零二氧化碳排放（在使用期间）与成本效益、低维护和短回报时间相结合，构成了一种颠覆性的绿色空间冷却解决方案，可以显著降低冷却系统的电力消耗。

The problem: Indoor space cooling is a fundamental means for achieving good health and wellbeing due to its direct correlation with human comfort, increased productivity levels and concomitant health benefits. Such is its impact on people's lives that meeting all 17 UN's Sustainable Development Goals rests, to a greater or lesser extent, on the timely proliferation of green cooling technologies, as was recently argued. Nonetheless, cooling has a dark side, being one of the most energy intensive and highly polluting processes associated with human activity. The statistics are staggering; the energy consumed by air-conditioners and electric fans accounts for ~20% of the total electricity used in buildings worldwide and contribute >1.2 GT of CO2 emissions/year. The solution: In order to resolve the cooling conundrum, I am putting forward a novel radiative cooling technology. The proposed solution leverages the infinite heat capacity of the cold Universe, converting it in essence into an inexhaustible reservoir for the waste heat of the built, transport, and other manmade environments on earth. The developed products in CoolGlass will take the form of radiative cooling panels made of thin, low-iron glass sheets. The main advantages that CoolGlass technology brings about are: i) Full compatibility with industrial, mass manufacturing methods. ii) Unrivalled durability. iii) Superior cooling capacity compared with other competing radiative cooling technologies. iv) Design flexibility, and, v) excellent sustainability prospects.Overall, CoolGlass combines zero input-energy and zero CO2-emissions (during usage period) with cost-efficacy, low-maintenanceand short payback times and constitutes a disrupting, green, space cooling solution that can significantly mitigate electricityconsumption from cooling systems.