Sentences with phrase «north side of your roof»

While it is technically possible to install solar panels on the north side of your roof, they need to be mounted so that they oppose the roof's slant in order to generate electricity.

Not exact matches

The storm passed just to the north of the island of Hispaniola, shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti, damaging roofs and causing flooding and power outages as it approached the Haitian side.

The storm passed just to the north of the island of Hispaniola, shared by Dominican Republic and Haiti, causing some damage to roofs, flooding and power outages as it approached the impoverished Haitian side, which is particularly vulnerable to hurricanes and rain, although it did not make landfall.

The MAC can't be moved so any southern expansion is null and void, we are expanding the east side so all that's left is the ancient north and west sides which would be incredibly expensive plus would require the removal of the awesome wood roof.

Environmentally sensitive: - Solar panels on roof reduce carbon - based electrical usage - Low water use flush toilets throughout all units - Extensive recycling (cardboard, paper, glass, plastic, aluminum, metal) at the north side of the building

Beginning from these circulation routes, and from the presence on the site of magnificent live oaks, the Johnston Marklee design calls for trees to be surrounded by three square, open - roofed courtyards, two of them serving as entrances on the west and east sides of the building, and the third providing a «scholars» cloister» on the north.

Roof, a site - specific sculpture, consists of nine hollow, low - profile domes of stacked slate, each with a centered oculus, that run the length of the ground - level garden area on the north side of the Gallery's East Building.

The Life Pod is a small free standing structure that implements solar panels as a roof surface providing dry covered shelter and water catchment, the water off the solar roof is stored in rain barrels, on the south side there is a Hydroponic food system mounted that produces fresh organic supply of greens, on the north side of the structure is a small utility closet that houses the solar battery and all the food system equipment, on the side of the utility closet there are 4 electrical outlets and an EV charging station, you can run the AC power over to your home or business and power any of your electrical needs with the off grid energy from the Life Pod.

This ruled out the entire roof on the north side of the site (shown below) which, despite being relatively shade - free, was completely flat.

The north - facing sides of the roof have a shallow pitch and are covered in solar thermal collectors, while the south - facing sides are steeper and admit indirect natural light.

I don't agree with Martin that the blue panels deface (I think they're kind of cool looking against the traditional reds and browns), but I did see lots of people planting them on their ultra-steep roofs (much more than the latitude) and pointing them in whatever direction the house seemed to face on the street side (north, east, south, whatever).

To use this same system for cooling, the north side of the Solar Shed roof is set up as a evaporative / radiation cooling surface.

The roof is on the north side of the complex and receives sunlight only about 15 per cent of the time, so it was determined that only a hardy evergreen native plant — Creek Sedge Grass — would be used.