"The Secrets of Building Your Own Solar Power..."
One of the largest home energy cost is home heating, especially in the colder climates. One major step in moving toward a solar power house is a cost effective solar home heating solution. Here is one you may find interesting and applicable to your situation.
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Passive solar home heating can provide abundant, clean, free heat by eliminating the need to burn expensive dirty fossil fuels to heat. The lowest-cost way to get started is with a passive solar power house design. All it needs is well-designed, properly-oriented glass. Two of Zero Energy Design® key concepts are: (1) Isolated Solar Gain in a greenhouse / solarium, and (2) a unique Thermal Buffer Zone, which uses free natural convection air flow to move warm air from the sunny greenhouse to the cold opposite side of the building.
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Heating your solar power house with solar hot water panels. You can buy them, I made my own. 1 square foot of collector heats 1 1/2 U.S. gallons of water 40 degrees farenheit in Pennsylvania, USA in winter. The more collectors you put up the more water volume you can heat. Most people use one of these collectors for domestic hot water, showers, etc. I used mine to heat my house. Of course insulate well first, then see if you can use this. You’ll need to add radiant floor heat system to get heat out of tank. tonyfixit
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Passive solar heating and hot water production in an earth sheltered solar power house.
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SWITCH Renewable Energy Workshop #1: Solar Home Heating – Solar Thermal Part 1
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