The house features: Earth sheltering on three sides with a carefully designed PAHS style insulation umbrella that uses the surrounding earth for thermal storage.Passive
solar gain through the south triple glazed windows.Active
solar through several Trombe walls
integrated into the south wall.An extensive earth tube system that pre-heats incoming fresh air and recovers
heat from outgoing stale air.A carefully designed back up wood
heating system.
Solar water heatingProvisions for
solar electricity.The house is located at 45 degrees north latitude and has a serious winter — the total
heating bill for the past two winters has been $ 70 worth of wood — about 0.6 cords.
Success with ammonia means we will have developed and commercialized, at scale, with viable economics, infrastructure and supply chains, the following new technologies: CCS, SSAS, methane cracking, conventional and high temperature electrolysis and thermochemical
water splitting for hydrogen production, nuclear
heat sources and small modular reactors, and
solar heat sources and renewable electricity of sufficient reliability to be
integrated into high volume must - run industrial processes.