{"id":151555,"date":"2022-11-30T23:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T05:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/engineers-use-quantum-computing-to-develop-transparent-window-coating-that-blocks-heat-saves-energy"},"modified":"2022-11-30T23:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T05:22:18","slug":"engineers-use-quantum-computing-to-develop-transparent-window-coating-that-blocks-heat-saves-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/engineers-use-quantum-computing-to-develop-transparent-window-coating-that-blocks-heat-saves-energy","title":{"rendered":"Engineers use quantum computing to develop transparent window coating that blocks heat, saves energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-use-quantum-computing-to-develop-transparent-window-coating-that-blocks-heat-saves-energy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cooling accounts for about 15 percent of global energy consumption. Conventional clear windows allow the sun to heat up interior spaces, which energy-guzzling air-conditioners must then cool down. But what if a window could help cool the room, use no energy and preserve the view?<\/p>\n<p>Tengfei Luo, the Dorini Family Professor of Energy Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and postdoctoral associate Seongmin Kim have devised a transparent coating for windows that does just that.<\/p>\n<p>The coating, or transparent radiative cooler (TRC), allows <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/visible+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">visible light<\/a> to come in and keeps other heat-producing light out. The researchers estimate that this invention can reduce electric cooling costs by one-third in hot climates compared to conventional glass windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooling accounts for about 15 percent of global energy consumption. Conventional clear windows allow the sun to heat up interior spaces, which energy-guzzling air-conditioners must then cool down. But what if a window could help cool the room, use no energy and preserve the view? Tengfei Luo, the Dorini Family Professor of Energy Studies at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}