Entrepreneurship & Innovation

DOI

10.2991/isss-18.2018.79How to use a DOI?

Keywords

solar roofs, energy consumption, cost efficient

Abstract

Over the last decades the global population has grown from 5.3 billion in 1990 to almost 7.5 billion in 2016, while, because the higher population densities tend to associate with lower levels of energy consumption, but the total population growth and the increasing wealth and economic income level of the population cause the total energy consumption to rise dramatically, which becomes an urgent challenge need to be addressed. This report firstly proposed three potential solutions, namely, constructing higher buildings, making use of industrial exhaust heat, and applying solar roofs. Then, these three solutions were compared with regards to the technical aspects, market aspects as well as return on investments aspects. Further, solar roof has been selected as so far the best solution in respond to the housing challenge, and the feasibility and benefits of solar roof, as well as factors that can influence the viability of this solution were illustrated afterwards

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jianlai Gao
AU  - Dandan Wei
PY  - 2018/05
DA  - 2018/05
TI  - Entrepreneurship & Innovation
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Social Science (ISSS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 380
EP  - 383
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/isss-18.2018.79
DO  - 10.2991/isss-18.2018.79
ID  - Gao2018/05
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