At the MorningStar solar home in University Park, Donghyun Rim describes how ozone in the air interacts with our own skin and clothing to produce other substances, some of them harmful to human health.
Freihaut at the East Campus Steam Plant at University Park, where a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) system burns natural gas to generate electricity, then captures the hot exhaust to make steam that further helps heat buildings on campus. The plant operates at 80 percent efficiency, much higher than a conventional power plant, where exhaust heat is lost to the environment.
To solve our energy challenges, say these Penn State research engineers, we need to start with buildings, communities, and generating electricity close to the people who will use it.
Left to right: Marybeth DiVincenzo, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of the Chester County Economic Development Council; Neil Sharkey, Vice President for Research at Penn State,;and James Names, Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer of Penn State Great Valley, ceremoniously cut the ribbon to inaugurate the REV-UP Center for Entrepreneurship.
At the REV-UP Center for Entrepreneurship's Lion Cage competition, Doug Thompson pitched "The TailWin!" which improves the visibility of bicycles on the road.
