Sentences with phrase «solar design ideas»

Anytime I speak to people about Passive House there seems to be some confusion with the Passive Solar Design ideas from the late 70s.

Much of the cabin's design methodology is faithful to classic passive solar design ideas: its long side has been oriented toward the south, and is covered with a deep overhang to shade it from too much summer solar gain.

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Harvesting the sun's energy as heat is hardly a new idea: During the energy crisis of the 1970s, designs for solar thermal power plants took off.

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As an eco-technological testbed, the i - flow was also designed to explore new energy harvesting ideas, ranging from flexible solar - panel roofing to a thermoelectric generator that recycles exhaust gases to help power auxiliary electrical systems.

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If you're interested in a solar electric system for your home and you live in a state with good incentives, it's always a better idea to act sooner rather than later — programs run out of funding, are designed to scale back over time, or reach their megawatt - capacity goals eventually, and if you wait too long you might find yourself stuck without access to those funds.

The idea of this design would be to use the wind at all levels plus solar power to generate a vortex in the vicinity of the VAWT.

Backyard inventors pioneered ideas about solar design and natural material selection that have evolved into today's green building standards.

Half of the design idea is to «integrate» your solar system; not to design a trailer and slap the biggest solar panels possible on top...

Turning dryer lint into sleeping bags, pizza boxes into solar kits for sterilizing surgery tools and the instant Duct Tape Shoe are great ideas from the Design for Survival Workshops conducted by Texas A&M; Associate Professor Peter Lang who asks students to rethink everyday objects for re-use with the purposes of survival.

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After research, months of design and an initial idea to focus only on wind power, she ultimately built a prototype that can harness solar and wind energy and the vibrations of rain drops.

The company's operations building in New Mexico was designed using the latest energy saving ideas, from solar panels that generate electricity to its «super insulation system» that combines concrete and two layers of a type of Styrofoam, to achieve a zero - carbon footprint.