Will we do more
with rainwater catchment?
Essentially, they use materials that can be found in the community to build «cheap» homes, coupled
with rainwater catchment systems, solar panels and other construction techniques to develop a community with the lightest footprint possible.
Not exact matches
New ICF product
with lots of Rvalue and effective thermal mass... Sun Tracker — an iPhone application for solar site surveys... The WooTank — DIY
rainwater catchment tank...
When the cabin is finished, it will run on solar power, use
rainwater catchment and a greywater system, be heated
with a combination of solar and wood from our land, and use very little energy overall.
The smaller units appear to only have enough solar capacity to run the LED lighting,
with shade and
rainwater catchment being the primary benefits of the devices, but the tops of the higher capacity units look to be virtually covered in solar panels, which would generate electricity that could be stored for later use.
I suppose that an enterprising person could use this scheme to combine a large
rainwater catchment system
with a house cooling system.
Fenced backyard
with mature plantings,
rainwater catchment system and solar panels!