Oct
21
Dramatically successful in achieving its goal of almost 100 percent active solar heating, this house was built more as a demonstration of an active heater’s capabilities than as an example of a practical solar application. Such a system is uneconomical not only because of its overall cost, but also because much of the collector and [...]
Oct
21
Built on the beach, this house has an elegantly clean design that combines a number of active features with passive direct gain to make its solar heating system work exceptionally well. The basic solar heater is an active liquid type: 450 square feet of flat-plate collectors (all-copper tube-type absorbers with a selective surface and single [...]
Oct
21
Though the style of this house is hardly conventional, its dual solar heating-and-cooling system is ingenious and functional. The system is a hybrid, using both active and passive techniques to keep the house comfortable.
Oct
21
Solar heating is by no means limited to single-family homes. It adapts easily to multifamily housing, as long as there is the necessary south orientation and enough roof area to hold an adequate number of collectors.
In fact, from a solar viewpoint, adjoining multifamily units have two advantages over separate homes: they tend to be smaller, [...]
