Passive Solar, Heating Types, Heat Flow, Radiant Energy, Active Solar
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Ox5qKC-oWjM
Keep the building warm in the winter and cool in the summer with little to no utility bills / fossil fuels. This increases both psychological and physiological comfort. Off-Grid Living is now. pages 16 - 21 of the Heating & Cooling Buildings books by Pangea Builders.
Pangea Builders is an educational and research organization providing sustainable buildings for residential, commercial and government use.
URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960148121013914
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2021.09.074
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I heard meralco pays for energy generated greater than the household consumes. Does anybody have any experience on this?
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Would any one like to know more about our project that we call the "Environmentally Responsive Test Room"? Its a highly insulated room with a PV powered computer control system that senses temperatures and operates a south facing window, with an insulating curtain and an over-head sun shade. We are close to making it fully operable and begin testing strategies for interior temperature control and thermal mass materials. I have a sneak preview video I am willing to share with individuals but it is not ready for the web yet. This is our first quasi-public post and we looking at what sort of public response is out there. Thank you for any response, comments or questions -The ERTR Project
I just thought about it and did some testing. It does work on her normal attack while in burst mode. And her jellyfish ticks count as individual procs extending it to 16s with just the elemental skill, and indefinitely if you can sustain keep 100% jelly uptime with burst.
I love her but I'm just sad at all the missed opportunities. I mean The Unforged series is just Rancour+ shield strength. So they could have just added this to it instead of that awful 1~2% hp scaling.
Normal attacks increase elemental skill and burst damage by 20~40% for 6s, and conversely increase normal attacks by 20~40% for 6s.
Hello all, question for you, do I really need angled glass in my greenhouse to appropriately collect and reject sun accordingly throughout the seasons for passive heating or can I achieve that with roof awnings, a proper sloped south facing (northern hemisphere) home?
I'm leaning more towards completely upright glass for the front of the Earthship greenhouse and the solar panels on the sloped, south facing part of the house equivalent to the average angle of the sun throughout the year.
My goal is to avoid sloped glass and still get the winter sun all the way to the back of the house to warm the thermal mass. FYI the depth of th house would not exceed 15 feet including the greenhouse (10" for interior living space, 5 feet for greenhouse portion). I am going micro and adding on laterally as budget permits.
I'm trying to really understand not just which option is best, but why. A big push I have against angled glass is because I've heard it's more prone to cracking.
I appreciate the information.
Bear with me, I'm a first time homeowner so I have a lot to learn.
This home has passive solar all across the S wall, it appears to be a bit different than most passive designs I've seen on the internet. The exterior of the wall is angled, in that are large double pane glass windows in front of black sheet metal (?), ducting runs from these black panels to a fan, and then into the home's heater. There are a couple locations with regular windows, but these are vertical like you'd expect, and recessed from the passive solar so no direct light comes into the home (if you can imagine the cross section of the wall -- basically a right triangle, the slanted exterior with all the solar windows does not appear to be insulated, the vertical portion inside the wall is). I could be wrong, but that's what I've gathered crawling around the voids in the walls and in the crawlspace.
I came home one day to discover 1 collector void of glass (both panes shattered), 3 others have the first layer destroyed, and the one contractor in town is booked for months, so I'll probably have to tackle this myself.
At first I'm inclined to say the panels with 1 sheet of glass are technically OK, obviously the exposed window spacer is going to create a lip at the bottom that's going to want to collect water, so that's not really OK...
More importantly what am I supposed to replace these with? I would think energy efficient argon windows would defeat the purpose, www.onedayglass.com has several glass options including low-e https://www.onedayglass.com/docs/LoE2-272-Glass-Rev2.pdf But after seeing this I'm inclined to say it should be regular glass (as the low-e glass has 0.37 SHGC)
Am planning on buying a few panels and setting them up in my backyard and the roof of my house, how can I sell the power? How is the profit margin? How big should the solar farm be? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
It gets to minus 40 here, so I want to optimize. I’ve seen some great YouTube videos but I’m wondering if it has been collected into some plans that can be adapted
Passive solar design, as in North (or south if you're in the northern hemisphere) facing windows and living areas, limited east and west windows, deciduous trees on the north and west for summer shade and the many other things that increase the efficiency of a house seem to have been completely ignored despite today's drive for reduction in emissions.
Why do you think this is and how can we go about improving it?
Keep the building warm in the winter and cool in the summer
with little to no utility bills / fossil fuels.
This increases both psychological and physiological comfort.
Off-Grid Living is now. pages 16 - 29 of the Heating & Cooling Buildings books by Pangea Builders.
Pangea Builders is an educational and research organization providing sustainable buildings for residential, commercial and government use.
