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Passive solar house design
Passive solar home design

Passive solar home design

...homeconstruction for generations. To see more about PassiveSolarheatedhomes see here , to discover about Passive House Certification and Design see here , both from EcoHome's Green Building Guides To see more videos from EcoHomedemonstrating how to build PassiveSolar住宅,被动式住宅和LEED白金白金Ho…

Lithium-ion solar home battery
Solar photovoltaic

Lithium-ion solar home batteries

...solarover the last 10 years Now you know aboutHomeBatteries and Power Storage. Read more moving away from fossil fuels and how to reduce your carbon footprint in the following pages and in the EcoHome绿色建筑指南卡塔尔世界杯排名预测世界杯葡萄牙vs加纳亚盘赔率。TeslaSolarPanel Special Offer Building a Near Zero EnergyHomeon a B...

How to Build a Passive Solar Home with EcoHome, the Green Building Resource
Passive solar home design

Passive solar home construction

...solarhomedesign & construction here This is the first in a series of videos on passivesolarhomeconstruction, we begin with passivesolardesign basics, orienting the future house on the site to take full advantage of the free heat available from the sun while keeping it cool with natural shading in the summer. ...

Product of the month: Aquion’s Aqueous Hybrid Ion saltwater home batte
Renewable energy

Aquion’s saltwater home battery

...solarpower The latest technologies in Lithium-ionhomebatteries All aboutsolarpanels: how they work Ten questions to ask asolarcontractor before singing a contract Off-grid living blog: ahomeowner reflects on the design and building process TeslaSolarRoof shingles review Aquion Energy

Passive solar heating & cooling in Homes has a long history in USA
Passive solar home design

Passive house and passive solar - free heat for homes

...homeis down to orientation & sun angles throughout the year © EcohomeThe first thing to understand is that there are two kinds ofsolarcollection inhomedesign - active and passive. An activesolarhomehas an expensive array of panels; either photovoltaic for power generation or thermalsolarfor heat collecti...

The passive solar home in Lac Kenogami, Quebec
Passive solar home design

Ecohome design wins House of the Year Award from Green Builder® Magazine

...homeowner Alain Hamel) was by no means an easy one. PSI is a design service andhomeperformance recognition program, intended to apply a performance figure tohomes indicating their heating requirements. Anyhomeunder 50 kWh per square meter per year is recognized, we also have the PSI challenge, where we put it ou...

The birthplace of Passive House solar home design The Saskatchewan Conservation
Passive solar home design

Saskatchewan: The birthplace of Passive House and passive solar home design

...solarheat collection and retention with modern building techniques all the way back in 1977. So Passive House started in the 70's? Most people in the USA and Canada are only really starting to hear about PassiveSolarHomes and Passive Househomes now , so what happened to this ground-breaking design principle tha...

Off-grid home with solar PV & Battery backup
Off-grid and Net-Zero Housing

Thinking about renewable home energy and a battery backup?

...solarpanels. Installinghomebattery systems: In the earlier days of off-gridhomeconstruction andhomepower storage, the onlyhomebattery option on the market was the lead/acid variety. The unfortunate realities of their size, cost, lifespan, material composition and lack of recyclability made installing one l...

Passively-heated off-grid LEED house in Low, Quebec
Off-grid and Net-Zero Housing

Off-grid living blog: a firsthand account of building and living in a remote area

...homes from the 70's, especially some of the passivesolardesigns of that time . There were terms like Trombe walls, usage of large water tanks for thermal mass, ' Earthships ' with greenhouses inside thehome, and more. There was a great deal of experimentation going on in building innovative and greenhomes for the...

Tesla Solar Roof shingles
Solar photovoltaic

The Tesla Solar Roof: we love the hype, but we'd like to see some actual facts.

...SolarPV & sustainable & resilient green building techniques here : Choosing betweensolartrackers & fixedsolarpanel mounts All aboutsolarpanels - the different options & how they work Ten questions to ask asolarpanel contractor T eslasolarpanels - special offers announced Tesla S...

Solariums in cold climates won't heat homes unless carefully designed and built
Greenhouses and Sunrooms / Solariums

Solariums in cold climates won't heat your home

...Solariums in cold climates, to better understand the principles of PassiveSolarhomedesign, and how to heathomes with the heat of sun, see here , for a finely engineered solution to high performancehomes check out all you need to know about Passive House certification here from North America's favorite no-nonsense ...