Video Part 3 of 6: Indirect and isolated gain passive solar systems Includes sections on a thermal storage wall (trombe), thermosiphon and a historic home with a sunspace. Architect Thomas Doerr shows just what you need to know about passive solar home design to save over 80% of your home’s heating and cooling bills. You [...]
Read More...Highly illustrative Barrel Plastic solar our latest entry www.youtube.com www.youtube.com with plastic barrel … in case if You want to build one out of it our entry to GE ecomagination Powering Your Home challenge.ecomagination.com Easiest passive solar heater, This DIY Solar Water Heater can be done by anyone at home, Cheapest Solar and Easiest Solar [...]
Read More...Architect Alan Cohen’s dream house is efficient with space; he packs he packs 4000 square feet of multi-use building- office (1050 sq ft), home (1730 sq ft), art studio for his wife and garage- onto a 3750 square foot lot. It’s also very energy efficient; Cohen uses passive solar for heating and cooling his home, [...]
Read More...For more, visit planetgreen.discovery.com This modern home near Auckland, New Zealand uses passive solar power and has it’s own water treatment system.
Read More...www.livingonsolar.com We have been livng in a passive solar home for over 20 years. See how we are using solar energy to heat our home.
Read More...Learn more about Dan Chiras here: www.ecospeakers.com Author and green building speaker, Dan Chiras provides a concise explanation of the importance of orienting a building properly relative to the sun for heat during the winter and cooling in the summer. Chiras has written more than 240 articles and 21 books. His most recent books are [...]
Read More...This is a video of the panels I will be using at the UF biodiesel plant. The solar panel arrays in the Solar Energy Park use a passive tracking system which allows for the panels to increase efficiency about 20%.
Read More...This video shows how well an energy efficient home can work with nothing but the suns energy. No heat is installed and the house has not dropped below freezing, even when the temps went down to -4.5F and no sun the house only went down to 41.9F
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