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In order to anticipate upcoming thermal building regulations, the owner of the house opted for an energy efficient building right away. Very quickly, clay proved to be an exceptionally versatile building material meeting the specifications on façade and roof.
Architect: Allier-Myotte
Client: Maison Helies
Photographer: Laurent Cheviet
Clay roof tiles: Vauban straight cut natural red, KoraSun® PV support roof tiles and Actua slate grey.
Read more about the project on our Architectum blog.
The finish line.Louis Palmer's Solar Taxi after 18 months around the world. He has proven that solar cells, solar energy, and photovoltaic can propel a vehicle for long streches. No petrol, no gasoline, just the FREE sun. It works !
More photos about this event in my flickr photostream set. / Palmer was able to travel around 54000 kilometers without having to change the vehicle's battery. One charge lasted around 300 kilometers. 50% of the energy came from the photovoltaic cells on the by-cart, 50% from electricity / plug in (solar origin).
It works!
When the voltage coming off the solar cell is high, the battery will charge. When the voltage falls below a threshold, the leftmost transistor will turn off which turns on the second half of the circuit. This amplifies the voltage from the battery (AAA) enough to turn on the LED.
Circuit diagram and thorough explanation: www.talkingelectronics.com.au/projects/SolarLight/SolarLi...
Sahar Rahmani, BME PhD Student, extracts the fibers from a bundle formed to create nanoparticles in the NCRC on February 24, 2014.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
Photovoltaic panels are wiped off for peak performance at The Wash Basket Laundromat, in Palmyra, Pennsylvania, on April 20, 2011. The business qualified for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development (RD) Rural Energy for America Program assistance to add 72 photovoltaic panels (solar cells) which helps runs the laundry machines and reduce electrical demand by 1/3. The array generates 20,000 KW/year, an approximate $250 savings per month. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
The round Heliotrope in the background was built 1994 as the first home in the world that produced more energy than it expends. The building has on one side triple-paned thermal insulated glass and it rotates to track the sun. Thus the maximum possible energy and light is let into the home. The other side of the building is highly thermally insulated. In the hot summer days, the house will instead turn the insulated backside to the sun, to keep the home comfortably cool.
On the roof there is a large mounted photovoltaic unit, totally 54 m2 with 6.6 kW peak output. The panel tracks the sun throughout the day automatically and computer controlled (turning independently from the building itself). Affixed as balcony railings there are vacuum-solar thermal collectors for hot water and heating. The ventilation system includes earth-to-air heat exchangers and ventilation with heat recovery.
Rainwater is collected, filtered and reused. Garbage and feces is decomposed in an odorless dry composting.
The house is the private home of its architect, Rolf Disch. It´s situated in Ziegelweg 28, Freiburg, Germany.
Rolf Disch Solar Architecture www.rolfdisch.de (website also in English)
The school in Stadsskogen in Alingsås City is Sweden´s first school certified as zero energy bulding. The roof is covered with 1300 sqm solar cells, then the largest solar cell unit on building in Sweden.
www.nollhus.se (website in Swedish)
Built: 2013. Architect: Liljewall arkitekter.
www.liljewall-arkitekter.se/ (website in Swedish)
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The school in Stadsskogen in Alingsås City is Sweden´s first school certified as zero energy bulding. The roof is covered with 1300 sqm solar cells, the largest solar cell unit on one building in Sweden.
Built: 2013. Architect: Liljewall arkitekter.
www.liljewall-arkitekter.se (website only in Swedish)
In order to anticipate upcoming thermal building regulations, the owner of the house opted for an energy efficient building right away. Very quickly, clay proved to be an exceptionally versatile building material meeting the specifications on façade and roof.
Architect: Allier-Myotte
Client: Maison Helies
Photographer: Laurent Cheviet
Clay roof tiles: Vauban straight cut natural red, KoraSun® PV support roof tiles and Actua slate grey.
Read more about the project on our Architectum blog.
This solar cell panel tower is standing in a petrol station. This is one of 580 disaster prevention petrol stations in Japan. Each station has a power generator and a water tank so that they would continue to work in case of disaster.
July 31, 2017 - Oregon senator Jeff Merkley paints a perovskite ink formulation onto a small glass panel to instantly make a solar cell while touring the Science and Technology Facility (S&TF) on the campus of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. (Photo by Werner Slocum / NREL)
In order to anticipate upcoming thermal building regulations, the owner of the house opted for an energy efficient building right away. Very quickly, clay proved to be an exceptionally versatile building material meeting the specifications on façade and roof.
Architect: Allier-Myotte
Client: Maison Helies
Photographer: Laurent Cheviet
Clay roof tiles: Vauban straight cut natural red, KoraSun® PV support roof tiles and Actua slate grey.
Read more about the project on our Architectum blog.
In order to anticipate upcoming thermal building regulations, the owner of the house opted for an energy efficient building right away. Very quickly, clay proved to be an exceptionally versatile building material meeting the specifications on façade and roof.
Architect: Allier-Myotte
Client: Maison Helies
Photographer: Laurent Cheviet
Clay roof tiles: Vauban straight cut natural red, KoraSun® PV support roof tiles and Actua slate grey.
Read more about the project on our Architectum blog.
The Wash Basket Laundromat, in Palmyra, Pennsylvania, on April 20, 2011. The business qualified for a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development (RD) Rural Energy for America Program assistance to add 72 photovoltaic panels (solar cells) which helps runs the laundry machines and reduce electrical demand by 1/3. The array generates 20,000 KW/year, an approximate $250 savings per month. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
An NREL research team led the way with a 16.5%-efficient cadmium telluride (CdTe) PV cell and device structure that surpassed the former world record by 0.7%, absolute. Innovations include a CdSn transparent conducting oxide layer (for superior conductivity, strong optical transmittance, and a smoother surface) and a ZnSn buffer layer (for improved performance and reproducibility). Dr. Xuanzhi Wu and other NREL CdTe Team members, including James Keane, fabricated the record CdTe cell; Keane has also assisted the CIS Team in making world-record CIS cells.
Skytech Solar is a local bay area solar company, located in Potrero Hill that has completed over 400 Residential Solar Panel installations in the City of San Francisco. What are the advantages of solar energy?
Skytech Solar specializes in installing Solar Panels and Solar Power systems in the San Francisco Bay Area. Go Solar now and take advantage of Solar Energy to reduced PG&E rates, charging you electric car and reducing your overall carbon footprint.
(Swedish: Hogslätts Vänboende)
In 2013 a building cooperative was formed and in 2018 the housing was inaugurated: 12 apartments plus a common living room in a housing cooperative. One of the purposes is that anyone can afford the apartments. All tenants are members in a economic association that owns the plot and the buildings. Heating is done with a geothermal heat pump and the solar cells on the roofs provide almost half of the total electricity demand.
Architect: Hans Sörqvist. Builder: Ulf Pagander.
hogsl%c3%a4ttsv%c3%a4nbo.se (website in Swedish)
the finish line in Switzerland /
complete story at:
angehalle.blogspot.com/2008/12/louis-palmer-and-his-solar...
From school children, general public, movie stars, maharajas, UN secretaries to princes and princesses, he was able to reach out to an enormous number of people of all walks of life on this trip. (Here a shortlist of people who were passengers in his Solar-Taxi: the maharaja of Jaipur (India), Prince Albert (Monaco), Princess Somaya (Jordan), Rajendra Pachouri (director of UNEP and nobel prize winner), Micheline Calmy Rey, Bertrand Piccard (Switzerland), the environment minister of France, Bianca Jagger, Larry Hagman, Jay Leno, Michael Bloomberg and the mayor of Sofia (Bulgaria). Palmer was very proud of the fact the even Ban Ki Moon, the UN General Secretary, took a taxi ride with his solarmobile.
On the road most other people made positive signs when they passed his electric taxi. The only exception was a small crash in India, where the other car suffered more damage when it crashed into the photovoltaic part of the Solar-Taxi.
The whole endeavour lasted 18 months. It was impossible to make an exact plan. After all it was a taxi ! Palmer was often invited to speak at schools and press conferences. He also took passengers, including at the Climate Conference in Bali, Indonesia. Here is a list of most of the countries he travelled through with the Solar-Taxi: Switzerland, Germany, Chech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, India, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Laos, China, South Korea, USA, Canada, France, UK, Poland, Germany and back to Switzerland. He travelled around 8 hours every second day, which makes an average of 100 kilometers per day. In reality he sometimes had the solar mobile taken per ship and often took a day off his travels for the press conferences and lectures, visit to UN offices in Vienna, in New York, Climate Conference in Poland. All in all the Solar-Taxi travelled around 53 451 kilomers. One battery charge lasted 300 kilometers. The battery and the motor "survived" the whole trip. 50% of the electricity was produced by the photovoltaic panels and the other 50% was solar energy produced on a roof top in Köniz in Switzerland. Of course, when in another country this was virtual energy, but really produced. (Palmer is convinced that solar powered electric mobiles are better than bioethanol).
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PlusEnergy homes produce more energy than they consume. All of the houses have large photovoltaic roofs. The supplementary income heavily outweighs the low additional building costs. All houses are wooden and built only with healthy building materials.
Vauban district, Freiburg City, Germany.
Architect: Rolf Disch. Rolf Disch Solar Architecture www.rolfdisch.de (website also in English)
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Rotterdam Central Station / Benthem Crouwel Architects + MVSA Architects + West 8
Project Year: 2014
The largely transparent roof structure which covers all the tracks over a length of 250 meters, flood the platforms with light. The glass plates of the roof vary the level of light transmittance by utilizing different solar cells patterns, which produce an ever-changing and fascinating play of shadows on the platforms.
www.archdaily.com/588218/rotterdam-central-station-benthe...
Sahar Rahmani, BME PhD Student, works on the jetting process to create a bundle of fibers from which nanoparticles are created and extracted for various uses, including drug carriers in the NCRC on February 24, 2014.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
Outer hull of "Werder's" Stadium, Bremen
This "hull" structure is a kind of wrapper, which sourrounds the whole building and is overlaping at the bottom, so you can watch inside from the street. It consists of solar cells which try to compensate the energy consumption of the stadium.
The Wash Basket Laundromat, in Palmyra, Pennsylvania, on April 20, 2011. The business qualified for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development (RD) Rural Energy for America Program assistance to add 72 photovoltaic panels (solar cells) to help power the laundry machines and reduce electrical demand by 1/3. The array generates 20,000 KW/year, an approximate $250 savings per month. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
One of imec’s solar cell researchers holding a flexible perovskite solar cell on foil with an efficiency above 10%. More info: magazine.imec.be/data/59/reader/reader.html?t=14460188381...
The black squares are parts in a photovoltaic system (solar cells) that produce electricity and yet you have enough light for the plants inside the greenhouse. Solar cells can convert more energy when the sun is shining and less in cloudy conditions. The solar cells in the roof and on the ground can convert more energy when the sun is high in the sky, the solar cells in the wall convert more when the sun is low. Building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) will increasingly influence our built environment, roofs, walls, windows and so on.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building-integrated_photovoltaics
One of the buildings at the ETC Solar Park in Katrineholm.
etcsolpark.se (website in Swedish)
Factory for making solar cells in Freiburg, Germany. The solar cells on the facade produce electricity and are also sun shades that prevent the hall inside from getting too hot.
Address: Munzinger Strasse 10
Skytech Solar is a local bay area solar company, located in Potrero Hill that has completed over 400 Residential Solar Panel installations in the City of San Francisco. What are the advantages of solar energy?
The Wash Basket Laundromat, in Palmyra, Pennsylvania, on April 20, 2011. The business qualified for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development (RD) Rural Energy for America Program assistance to add 72 photovoltaic panels (solar cells) to help power the laundry machines and reduce electrical demand by 1/3. The array generates 20,000 KW/year, an approximate $250 savings per month. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.