Solar tracker/ Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...Solartracker© Ecohome STORY UPDATE: In Canada, the prices forsolarpanels has been steadily declining while the cost oftrackers has remained fairly static. In light of the low price of panels, it is hard to make a case now fortrackers based solely on a return on investment. Greg Dorsey is a Maine certified sol...

...solararrays, because the inverters in asolararray system require power to begin making power, regardless of whether they are tied to the grid or not. Smart battery systems will recognize if you do laundry, shower or cook with electric stoves in something of a regular pattern. This helps them determine at a given t...

...solarcells as thin as laminate and completely transparent, the possibilities seem endless. Imagine every glass or laminant surface in our built environment and all of our devices, large and small, harvestingsolarenergy. In a world of passive, self-sustaining mini-power stations, would the need for fossil fuel actual...

The first step to controlling sound transmission in buildings is assessing the situation. What kind of noise is it? Noise in buildings is usually assigned to one of three classes: Airborne sound: Sound such as voices, TV or stereo sounds. The source does not strike or vibrate against the structure of the building....

Before embarking on any structural changes, it is most important to understand that the sound isolation between two homes is not determined only by the common wall or floor. All the other parts of the construction - side walls, ceilings, floors under walls - can transmit sound. Flanking sound transmission (see below),...

We've seen portable charging devices for personal gadgets, we've seen vertical axis wind turbines and now we have seen a marriage of the two. That's right, appropriate technology enthusiasts, there is a portable wind turbine on the horizon and it's perfect for charging your electronic gizmos. Skajaquoda is a researc...

建造不牺牲生活质量的小型住宅的关键是确保它们在设计时充分利用空间，无论空间有多有限。然而，你还必须确保有足够的隐私，消除不必要的声音通过墙壁传播。这样，小一点的房子可以……

All nations want and need to get back to work, and soon , but there's going to have to be a lot of adjustments to how we actually do it. When we start to get back to normal after COVID-19, (the new normal anyway), there will likely be an extended period of time where we are all a little leery of shaking that first han...

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At last, a packaged solution for gray water treatment & recycling - the Hydraloop Reducing home water consumption is an increasingly important issue, as the world is already facing a global water shortage crisis. We don’t think much about it in Canada & America because most of us have yet to suffer the extreme impac...

Do Tru-Earth Eco-Strips laundry detergent actually get clothes clean? Any new product such as this can be met instantly with skepticism, or at least perhaps ‘curiosity’ as to whether they will work as well as claimed. So the first question – Do Tru Earth laundry detergent strips actually work? We tried these laundry...