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Shadows Are Your Enemy
With solar, large buildings, trees, shrubs and any kind of tall obstruction can rob you of power and heat from the sun. You need to stand at each corner of your new home and take note of any structure or obstruction that might limit access to the sun’s rays.
Face south from each location and turn your head right to left and note anything that might get in the way. If there are trees or other empty home sites …
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Saving Money With Solar – Before and After You Build
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Saving Money With Solar – Before and After You Build. 1
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Introduction. 3
Before You Build: 4
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As usual, it’s been way too long since I got you caught up on where we are with our own Passive Solar Home design and building project. Here’s what’s happend since my last update:
The house design: …
Found this blog post about a modern concrete home design. The home is beautiful, if not a little large for a lot of families, but it had a lot of great ideas that could be employed in not only my own home design, but in many passive solar home designs.
Here’s the …
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This is where passive solar home design comes into play.
Passive solar home and business design takes a better look at the energy coming from the sun ane how to use it to improve the home’s cooling and heating in a totally natural way. There are actually four (4) major principles in passive design that are easily understood and used to your advantage. These are…
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I know it’s been a little longer than I had hoped between articles… but then I was on a “Business Trip” in Vegas and home through the Redwoods.
The trip was spectacular and we had a really great time, but we’re here to talk about what I learned at the World of Concrete show in Las Vegas NV that should save me a bundle up front as well as over the years in my new solar home.
Like I said before, there were so many great vendors at the World of Concrete, it took two days and more than 12 hours to see it all and talk to just the few I had time for. You gotta be…
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Been trying to get the next step done on our passive and active solar dream home. Unfortunately, the weather here in Deer Park (just north of Spokand Washington) has not been cooperating.
We have more than 4 feet standing in the fields on our 15 acres and a layer of ice on the roads and driveways. Looks like it will be late Spring or even Early Summer before we get…
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