Caltech’s Energy Retrofit: From Fuel Cells to a Daylighting Celeostat

9:31 pm in Design & Architecture, energy efficiency, fuel cells, lighting, renewable energy, Science & Technology, utilities by TreeHugger

caltech astrophysics building photo Caltech's first LEED building, the Astrophysics Center, reduces water and energy by 30% and is 75% daylit. Photos by R. Cruger On Caltech's campus, student engineers and scientists are busy in labs day and night working on hairy solar panels, termite guts biofuel and other innovations while sucking almost twi...Read the full story on TreeHugger