Sustainable energy practices at the Cal Poly Pomona Center for Regenerative Studies
- California State Polytechnic Univ., Pomona, CA (United States)
The Center for Regenerative Studies at Cal Poly University Pomona is a residential academic program that explores the application of regenerative technologies in the students` daily life. These technologies are largely self-renewing in their basic operation making use of on-site resources, human interaction, internal recycling, solar energy and biologically based processes. The Center can be viewed as an ecosystem through which energy, water, nutrients and other materials flow in continuous and consistent paths. These flows provide each community member with basic life-support requirements. The Center started operations in January 1994 adjacent to the Cal Poly campus. On a 16 acre site on land previously used for livestock grazing. The buildings on this site include two resident halls, a seminar/classroom and laboratories, an administration building and a commons area including a kitchen/dining area able to accommodate 100 people. It is a university-based setting for education, demonstration and research in sustainable technologies, in a multidisciplinary program where activities that traditionally belong to various disciplines are integrated. Solar energy applications are among the major regenerative technologies modeled and studied at the Center. The major regenerative sources of energy to be used by the community are primarily active and passive solar, biomass and some wind. An `energy park` combining technology and learning with daily life, is a part of the overall design of the Center. During the 1994--95 year faculty have been monitoring student energy behavior, building heating and cooling patterns, total facility energy use, and living area thermal environments. Data gathered from this new sustainable project that focuses on energy are described and analyzed.
- OSTI ID:
- 113321
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950336-; ISBN 0-7918-1300-2; TRN: IM9544%%281
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: American Society of Mechanical Engineers/Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers/Japan Solar Energy Society international solar energy conference, Lahaina, HI (United States), 19-24 Mar 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Solar engineering 1995: Proceedings. Volume 1; Stine, W.B. [ed.] [California Polytechnic Univ., Pomona, CA (United States)]; Tanaka, Tadayoshi [ed.] [Electrotechnical Lab., Ibaraki (Japan)]; Claridge, D.E. [ed.] [Texas A and M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)]; PB: 746 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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