House Heated/Cooled Entirely With Solar Energy
Here is an interesting YouTube video about a house that uses only solar energy to heat and cool. It’s fairly short, but it’s interesting to see how it works.
The house was made by a company called Enertia® Building Systems. I highly recommend you check out the website. It has all kinds of interesting information and showcases quite a few of the homes they have built.
Here is a blurb outlining the basic principles invovled:
In the Enertia® Building System, solid Energy-Engineered(tm) wood walls replace siding, framing, insulation, and paneling. An air flow and access channel, or Envelope, runs around the building, just inside the walls - creating a miniature biosphere. Here solar heated air circulates, pumping and boosting geothermal energy from beneath the house, storing it in the massive wood walls. Thermal inertia causes the house to “float” between the cycles of night and day, and even between the seasons.
Many aspects of the Enertia® House are unusual and innovative - but backed up by science, common-sense, and prototype homes across America. In fact, each aspect listed below increases the energy efficiency of the building. The effect is Synergistic - equal to more than the sum of the parts. The Enertia® House can make more energy than it uses!
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Written by Bentley on December 11th, 2006 with
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