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I love old farmhouse kitchens and I was scared that when we built our house that the kitchen wouldn't have any charm. Using stone and pieces of wood we found here and there and some very new wood we cut from our woods, we had the start of a room that felt "lived in" as we were building it.
I added the old wooden tables which I've had since I was a student in Glasgow, a few chairs that have been given to me over the years, a woodstove we bought second-hand and a few bits that have followed me around for years and the new house feels like home.
A solar or bioclimatic house uses the natural patterns of the movement of the sun to enjoy its low rays in the winter. They heat the floor, the wooden furniture and the stone walls and we often don't have to use our stove - even in the heart of winter. The light is beautiful and very cheering. In the summer, the sun is high and the window shades are designed to keep the sun's rays out of the house and keep it cool. At times the temperatures here in South West France reach the 40s, the inside of our house has never been more than 23°c. Here's a video to show you what I mean : www.flickr.com/photos/hardworkinghippy/42015810650/in/alb...
This isn't a very good photograph, it's blurred and the room's full of debris but it shows the wonderful light that we get in the house at this time of the year.
L'air frais provenant des plantes humides passe par la porte nord et traverse la maison jusqu'aux pièces de l'étage supérieur.
Unfortunately the potato vine Solanum jasminoides which normally provides us with shade in the summer has been cut down by the hard frost.
This Wisteria looks as though it may replace the potato vine nicely.
Il fait sacrément chaud dehors, mais à l'intérieur, nous, et les chiens, apprécions une maison construite pour rester au frais en été. Our house was built to be cool in summer and warm in winter and it's so nice!
Conservation of solar power; it is time to stop worrying about cleaner air--let's concentrate on some serious ecology. Save the sun from burning up before its time...
It's (111°f) today. I took a few photos inside and outside of our house to record the changing temperatures, then made them into a short video to illustrate one of the cool advantages of having a bioclimatic house. No fans, no air conditioning, no energy use - just common sense.
Il fait vraiment chaud aujourd'hui. J'ai pris quelques photos à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur de notre maison pour enregistrer les changements de température, puis j'en ai fait une courte vidéo pour illustrer l'un des avantages d'avoir une maison bioclimatique. Pas de ventilateurs, pas de climatisation, pas de consommation d'énergie - juste du bon sens.
Utah Parade of Homes 2012
Garbett Homes popular Solaris Collection at Daybreak Utah. This solar powered super energy efficient home is remarkably spacious.
Unique home with triple junction hydrogenated amorphous silicon-based photovoltaic shingles generates its own electricity directly from sunlight.
March 17, 2014 - Seth and Nancy Portner with their daughter Lettie, in front of their Boulder home which they weatherized, insulated and installed a 3.7 kw solar array on the roof. Photo credit: Dennis Schroeder, NREL
We're quite pleased with the new Sears/LG laundry boxes. The dryer has a rare feature, a delay before operating. Learn more about time-of-day metering or see a graph indicating why power should be cheaper at 2am.
Washer: LG WM1333HW seems to need about 0.10 kWh per load.
Dryer: LG DLEV833W.
Both are Energy Star rated and have delay features.
#!/bin/sh
logfile="/home/tai/bin/wget-ted.log"
lineswanted="720"
output="wget-ted-today.png"
mathstring="36*`date +"%z"`"
offset="`echo $mathstring | bc`"
spline="1E-09"
#
#
/usr/bin/gnuplot << EOF
# A Gnuplot script, wget-ted.plt
set terminal png size 1024,768 giant nocrop
# set terminal dumb
set output "$output"
# set output
set title "Sampled household electrical power consumption \n Thanks to The Energy Detective \n generated by $0 at `date +"%F %T"` \n from $lineswanted lines of $logfile"
set xdata time
# set timefmt is for INPUT
# 1205349849
set timefmt "%s"
# 2008-03-12 15:06:56
# set timefmt "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
# 2008-03-12
# set timefmt "%Y-%m-%d"
#
# set format x is for OUTPUT
set format x "%H:%m"
set ylabel "kW"
set xlabel "Time"
# Stupidly, this does not work
# set xrange [1205349849:]
# Why is it 1:4? Note space within date. $2 is the time column
# need \ to escape the shell variable since that's not what we intend.
plot "wirchy:9090/DashboardData | grep KWNow | tr -d [:alpha:] | tr -d [:blank:] | tr -d \ | tr -d / | tr -d \\n\\r
echo
Run from cron, direct output to a log, analyze with gnuplot script above.
courtesy of www.jc-solarhomes.com/gallery.htm,
Here is a nice little solar greenhouse in Saranac NY about 40 miles south of the Canadian border. The five 4X8 one-inch thermo pane panels face south. They are tilted at an angle of 60 degrees to optimize heat collection during the coldest months of the year. The stone floor of this greenhouse is about four feet below the outside knee-wall. The back-wall was built out of cobble stones mortared into position to provide a heat sink. Rising hot air at the apex of the solar greenhouse pushes top flaps open to heat the interior living space of the house. Lower flaps open into the greenhouse to allow cold air return.. Shortly after the sun sets the flaps close to prevent living space heat from being lost into the cooling night-time greenhouse. Besides providing additional heat to the house the greenhouse provides an excellent plant nursery.
www.motherearthnews.com/Renewable-Energy/Thin-Film-Solar-...
Unique home with integrated shingles incorporating flexible triple junction hydrogenated amorphous silicon and silicon-germanium alloy photovoltaic materials on stainless steel foil. A stack of three thin film solar cells, each with a different semiconductor band gap enables light collection over a broader range of solar wavelengths than is possible with a single band gap amorphous semiconductor.
This home generates its own electricity from sunlight.
Detalle de la casa del Team IKAROS Baviera de la Universidad de Rosenheim (Alemania)
Solar Decathlon Europe 2010 (Madrid)
Gracias a Lenabem-Anna por compartir sus fantásticas texturas ;-)
La universidad finlandesa de Aalto concurrió al Solar Decathlón de Madrid con la casa Luukku. Este modelo de vivienda se basa en el concepto de vivienda tradicional finlandesa ligada a la naturaleza.
Luukku House, Aalto University, Finlandia.
Las diez pruebas del concurso son:
1.Arquitectura
2.Ingeniería y Construcción
3.Eficiencia Energética
4.Balance de energía eléctrica
5.Condiciones de Bienestar
6.Funcionamiento de la casa
7.Comunicación y Sensibilización Social
8.Industrialización y Viabilidad de Mercado
9.Innovación
10.Sostenibilidad