{"id":1027,"date":"2008-03-16T08:25:16","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T00:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2014-06-28T10:04:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T02:04:56","slug":"solar-building-will-generate-more-power-than-it-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/environment\/solar-building-will-generate-more-power-than-it-needs-1027","title":{"rendered":"Solar building will generate more power than it needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaefficient.com\/architecture-and-building\/stunning-solar-building-will-generate-more-power-than-it-needs.html\">metaefficient.com<\/a>, the $22 billion Masdar Building in Abu Dhabi will be 'energy positive'. It will also use 70% less water than similar size and purpose buildings. <\/p>\n<p>They are going to build the roof first and it will provide power for the rest of the construction. The building will be completed in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/03\/masdar_exterior-sm.jpg' alt='Masdar Building' \/><\/p>\n<p>There's lots of interesting mathematics involved in the design and development of energy efficient buildings, especially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/calculus\/calculus-intro.php\">calculus<\/a>. I like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/trigonometric-graphs\/1-graphs-sine-cosine-amplitude.php\">sinusoidal<\/a> support for that roof.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if an oil-rich Middle Eastern country can get it when it comes to energy efficient buildings, why can't Western countries?<\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaefficient.com\/architecture-and-building\/stunning-solar-building-will-generate-more-power-than-it-needs.html\">rest of the story and a video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/environment\/solar-building-will-generate-more-power-than-it-needs-1027#comments\" id=\"comms\">1 Comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/environment\/solar-building-will-generate-more-power-than-it-needs-1027\"><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/03\/masdar_exterior-thumb.jpg' alt='Masdar Building' class='imgRt' \/><\/a>This building, currently under construction in Abu Dhabi, will be 'energy positive'.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}