Energy consumption in buildings and female thermal demand

2015/08/03 by Boris Kingma, Wouter van Marken Lichtenbelt · 1 citation
Engineering · Environmental Science · Mathematics · Medicine · #Architectural engineering #Building Energy and Comfort Optimization #Computer science #Consumption (sociology) #Ecology #Economics #Efficient energy use #Electricity #Energy consumption #Energy demand #Engineering #Environmental economics #Environmental health #Environmental science #Flexibility (engineering) #Geography #Greenhouse gas #Mathematics #Medicine #Metabolic rate #Meteorology #Peak demand #Population #Statistics #Thermal comfort #Thermoregulation and physiological responses #Urban Heat Island Mitigation

paper · doi:10.1038/nclimate2741

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