In this lovely and innovative passive solar retrofit, an older adobe home transformed to become an efficient, modern house with a south facing sun room and a south facing two-story Trombe wall. It is also a grid-tied solar electric home that produces enough electricity to have paid for the solar photovoltaic (PV) system within...
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Here’s a beautiful passive solar house that’s toasty warm in the cold, snowy winter. He has a gorgeous tile floor next to large southern facing windows. Beautiful! Take a look at his website. All the photos also link to the building category at Quadomated.com. It’s a bitterly cold day outside. The outside temperature is...
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Hard to believe, but in 14 seconds, the sun provides all the energy that the earth uses in one day. Most of the energy striking the Earth is not utilized, yet more and more people are building passive solar houses that harness the sun’s energy. This passive solar house is a submission from...
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The freedoms of living off-the-grid can be rewarding as well as comfortable. This article focuses on the electrical and active solar systems that augment the efficiency of the previous post that featured the design of the passive solar home. It’s a textbook-perfect passive solar home because they utilized all the design principles of efficient...
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This off-grid, owner-designed and built house is one of the most impressive passive and active solar combinations I’ve seen. Located at an elevation of 9,000 feet in the Colorado mountains, on a windy, snowy January day, after entering the home, I experienced a quiet confidence and a solid feel of warmth and comfort. ...
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Because this house is located in Colorado, a state with over 300+ sunny days a year, the home owner is capitalizing on the sun’s relatively stable energy source and using it to provide both electricity and heat. The passive solar house boosts its efficiency with active solar photovoltaics (PV) to create electricity. While the house creates...
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Is there anything more luxurious than spending time in a well-built home? Standing proudly on a hill surrounded by gorgeous mountain views, situated in one of the coldest areas of Colorado, the Fraser-Granby mountain valley, is a surprisingly efficient house. The contemporary active-passive solar house is situated and built to be cool in the...
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Tucked away where the canyon country meets the mountains, is a beautiful passive solar home built with two Trombe Walls. People who live in passive solar homes tend to exude a certain passion and excitement about their houses. It’s as if they have a really cool treasure house that is simultaneously philosophically and economically...
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Located close to BLM land with gorgeous views of the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado, this passive solar, modified earthship-style house is off the grid and generates all of its own electricity. Structure The house is a modified two-story earthship that has a berm around on the northern side of the ground floor. ...
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