俄亥俄州立大学（Ohio State University）多年来一直在研究将太阳能用于住宅空间供暖和制冷。目前由工业支持的工作主要集中在俄亥俄州哥伦布市俄亥俄展览中心场地上一个住宅大小的实验室的性能上。该项目的动机首先是确定适用于俄亥俄州和大湖区的技术和经济界限，其次是确定需要重点研究的具体领域。我在洛杉矶ISE会议上提交的一篇论文介绍了1974-75年供暖季节住宅规模实验室的性能。那个赛季的表现结果让我们对系统进行了许多控制和操作修改。这些修改将在我们正在进行的太阳能研究项目中进行评估。其他几位研究人员也抨击了太阳能冷却这项艰巨的任务。 特别值得注意的是法伯和安德森的早期作品，以及洛夫等人和汉弗莱塞特等人最近的作品，他们都证明了太阳能冷却在其地理位置的技术可行性。本文报告的工作有助于对太阳能吸收式制冷的经济潜力进行必要的分析，并对当前吸收式制冷技术的广泛应用提出强烈的警告。引文:德克萨斯州达拉斯ASHRAE交易会第82卷第1部分研讨会

The utilization of solar energy for residential space heating and cooling has been under study at Ohio State University for several years. The current industrially supported work has concentrated primarily upon the performance of a residential-sized laboratory located on the Ohio Exposition Center grounds in Columbus, Ohio. The motivation for the program has been first to identify the technical and economic boundaries applicable to the Ohio and the Great Lakes region, and second to identify specific areas of research upon which to focus.The performance of the residential-sized laboratory during the 1974-75 heating season is covered in a paper I presented at the Los Angeles ISES meeting. The results of that season's performance have led us to make many control and operational modifications to the system. These modifications will be evaluated in our on-going solar research program.Several other researchers have also attacked the formidable task of solar cooling. Particularly noteworthy are the early works of Farber and Anderson and the more recent works of Lof et al and Humphrieset al, all of whom have demonstrated the technical feasibility of solar cooling in their geographic locations. The work reported in this current paper helps provide needed analysis of the economic potential of solar absorption cooling and to sound a strong word of caution about widespread utilization of the current absorption cooling technology.