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Record W1979445268 · doi:10.3992/jgb.1.3.3

Photovoltaics: Theory to Reality at the Bowdoin-Geneva Community Center in Dorchester, Massachusetts

2006· article· en· W1979445268 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Green Building · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicPhotovoltaic Systems and Sustainability
Canadian institutionsBombardier (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRenewable energyPhotovoltaic systemFossil fuelEnvironmental economicsBusinessEngineeringEconomicsWaste managementElectrical engineering

Abstract

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Abstract In today's fuel-conscious economy, most developers and facility managers are searching for real ways of reducing energy and operational costs. At the same time, our fossil-fuel-dependent country is witnessing the design community working with numerous experts in the renewable energy fields, such as solar energy systems, to solve the need for real reductions in fuel consumption and environmental pollution. These two forces are not only “greening” the construction industry, they have changed the way projects are envisioned, undertaken, and financed. The theories behind these Renewable Energy systems have always sounded like such wonderful ideas, but were normally the first systems dropped from a project for reasons of initial installation costs, unfamiliarity in the construction industry, or risk considerations from facility and maintenance professions concerned about investing in unproven systems. Photovoltaic solar panel arrays have become one renewable energy system that has been tried and proven in Europe for years and is now becoming a common reality in the U.S. marketplace. With more and more projects obtaining financial assistance through funding grants, the payback analysis has become more palatable as a cost-possible solution; and the cost of the systems are reducing as the supply and demand has changed. As more photovoltaic product innovations come onto the market and more manufacturers and suppliers come into the market, the initial installation costs are also becoming more competitive. Project owners, or stakeholders, are also taking the time to analyze the real savings to their long-term operational budgets and their environment. In addition to saving costs, and the environment, photovoltaic arrays provide simple, low-maintenance solutions that can be as “visible” or “invisible” to the surrounding neighborhood and community. Gone are the inflexible large solar panel systems that need to sit high above roofs at south-facing angles to best harvest the sun's energy. Today's products and systems can be installed in numerous ways, such as low-slope exterior window shading devices, or low slope flat roof installations, or integrated into the glass panes of a building's window system. These installation and system options give designers more site planning flexibility for optimal orientation to the sun, make more of the building's exterior surface areas available to the photovoltaic cells, and lend design solutions the flexibility for unique aesthetics and imagery or subtle integration into traditional or historic preservation designs.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.069
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.262
Teacher spread0.246 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it