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  • Thumbnail for Passive solar building design
    In passive solar building design, windows, walls, and floors are made to collect, store, reflect, and distribute solar energy, in the form of heat in...
    76 KB (10,399 words) - 21:14, 29 April 2024
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    either passive solar or active solar depending on how they capture and distribute solar energy or convert it into solar power. Active solar techniques include...
    75 KB (8,960 words) - 13:57, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar power at the White House
    The use of solar power at the White House was first introduced in 1979. The solar panels were removed in 1986. Solar power was reintroduced early in the...
    7 KB (791 words) - 17:06, 31 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar Umbrella house
    The Solar Umbrella House is a private residence in Venice, Los Angeles, California, remodeled using active and passive solar design strategies to enable...
    8 KB (869 words) - 11:29, 15 August 2024
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    Greenhouse (redirect from Solar greenhouse)
    developing a solar enhanced oil recovery facility near Bakersfield, CA that uses greenhouses to enclose its parabolic troughs. An "alpine house" is a specialized...
    47 KB (5,346 words) - 07:44, 26 August 2024
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    Solar thermal energy (STE) is a form of energy and a technology for harnessing solar energy to generate thermal energy for use in industry, and in the...
    71 KB (8,376 words) - 18:34, 26 August 2024
  • of air heated by passive solar energy. A simple description of a solar chimney is that of a vertical shaft utilizing solar energy to enhance the natural...
    17 KB (2,009 words) - 23:10, 23 March 2024
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    They include the zero-energy house, the passive solar house, the autonomous buildings, the super insulated houses and houses built to the Passivhaus standard...
    28 KB (3,022 words) - 13:08, 14 August 2024
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    Solar power, also known as solar electricity, is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV) or indirectly...
    89 KB (9,105 words) - 15:28, 6 September 2024
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    The Solar System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the objects that orbit it. It was formed about 4.6 billion years ago when a dense...
    220 KB (21,682 words) - 10:55, 6 September 2024
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    Raymond created one of the first solar-heated houses, Dover Sun House, by storing energy each day. In 1953 they created a solar oven for people at various latitudes...
    28 KB (3,025 words) - 19:55, 2 September 2024
  • passive solar houses, and his publicity efforts contributed to a significant "solar house" movement in the 1940s. Frank Lloyd Wright used passive solar principles...
    11 KB (1,237 words) - 02:49, 16 August 2024
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    Sun (redirect from Solar diameter)
    The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion...
    170 KB (19,293 words) - 03:36, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Homer Hurst
    publications. Hurst's most notable research project is "The Solar House", a passive solar housing research project in Blacksburg, Virginia in 1980. The...
    10 KB (947 words) - 01:22, 26 September 2022
  • Thumbnail for Concentrated solar power
    Concentrated solar power (CSP, also known as concentrating solar power, concentrated solar thermal) systems generate solar power by using mirrors or lenses...
    86 KB (9,664 words) - 17:49, 4 September 2024
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    Machine at the Philip Johnson Glass House website, retrieved August 8, 2010 Denzer, Anthony (2013). The Solar House: Pioneering Sustainable Design. Rizzoli...
    28 KB (3,255 words) - 02:29, 25 July 2024
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    Retrieved August 14, 2012. "Barnsworth Gallery". Denzer, Anthony (2013). The Solar House: Pioneering Sustainable Design. Rizzoli. ISBN 978-0847840052. Archived...
    36 KB (4,131 words) - 20:59, 20 August 2024
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    Earth shelter (redirect from Earth house)
    Hurricane-proof building Passive house Passive solar Radiation shielding Root cellar Proponents: Cosanti—site of "Earth House" designed by architect Paolo...
    64 KB (8,578 words) - 16:58, 21 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar deity
    solar deity or sun deity is a deity who represents the Sun or an aspect thereof. Such deities are usually associated with power and strength. Solar deities...
    72 KB (8,190 words) - 18:26, 10 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Low-energy house
    architecture. Low-energy houses often have active and passive solar building design and components, which reduce the house's energy consumption and minimally...
    28 KB (3,019 words) - 10:40, 14 August 2024
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