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Passive Solar home, one year update Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 199 seconds Passive solar home, that cost $341 to heat last winter, in MA |
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Passive House in Massachusetts Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 598 seconds Description of a passive solar home here in Massachusetts and how this home compares to the Passive House standards for energy use |
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Passive solar house on January 1,2009 Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 286 seconds This video shows how this house maintains above frezing temperature(46.8F) when the outside temp goes down in the single digits and no heat running. Thermal mass windows that store the suns energy and then tranfers it into the house. |
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Passive solar window shading Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 292 seconds This video shows how our thermal mass windows keep cool with solar shades installed. These solar shades are being developed to compliment the thermal mass windows, but have a much wider appeal to any home that experiences large solar gains during the summer. |
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Introduction to Zero Energy Homes Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 161 seconds Introduction to Energy Efficient Building Technologies. |
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Water filled windows heating up Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 127 seconds This video shows the water filled solar windows heating up to 112.6F when it was 34F outside, with a night time low of 8F, nice and toasty 75F inside on a cold winters day with no other heat running. |
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Solar Home performance update Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 216 seconds Update of the perfomance of this energy efficient passive solar home. The water filled windows have maintained this house through the Feb 15th with no other heat and the house hasn't even come close to freezing. The water filled windows are providing most of the heat, with the rest being delivered by a geothermal heat pump. The key is not to need heat ,through super-insulating and air sealing. |
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Geothermal heating and cooling system Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 597 seconds Geothermal heat pump system supplying a radiant floor heating and cooling system. |
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Energy Efficient, Passive solar Home Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 502 seconds This video shows how well an energy efficient home can work with nothing but the suns energy. No heat is installed and the house has not dropped below freezing, even when the temps went down to -4.5F and no sun the house only went down to 41.9F |
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Solar home, Winter solstice testing Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 583 seconds This is a test showing the performance of this house at the winter solstice, without any heat installed in the house yet. You won't freeze in this house, even if you have no heat. |
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solar orientation - solar noon Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 159 seconds This video shows one method of determining true north south when orienting a solar building. |
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Passive solar, energy efficient home with a Trombe wall? Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 601 seconds This passive solar home is designed to capture and store the suns energy in the windows. These windows contain more than 3,000 pounds of water capable of storing 75,000 Btu's of energy on a good sunny day. Free, couresy of Mr. sun. |
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Trombe Wall? Window? best of both worlds Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 607 seconds This thermal mass window designed to work as solar storage, while letting in light and maintaining the optical clearity of any modern window |
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Passive solar window performance testing Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 302 seconds This is a video showing the latest development of a thermal mass window systems. Designed to capture and store the suns energy in the 3,000lbs of water contained within this window system. |
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Randall & Marks house warming ( Randall's song) Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 467 seconds This is Randall's song expressing the frustrations entailed while building their dream home. A passive solar, energy efficient, green home. |
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Randall & Marks solar home dedication Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 610 seconds A celebration of the trials and tribulations of building a green solar home |
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Structural Insulated Panels Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 648 seconds SIP's envelope system being installed on a passive solar home. |
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Solar home foundation part 2 Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 612 seconds part 2 of the slab on grade foundation system, including the installation of the insulation and radiant tubing |
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Solar home foundation part1 Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 429 seconds A little bit about how we insulate and prepare for an insulated slab-on-grade foundation |
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Intro to Passive Solar Home under construction Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 417 seconds This is an introduction to the passive solar home that I began building last week, in Middleboro MA |
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Geothermal Ground loop Installation Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 484 seconds Excavation and installation of a closed ground loop geothermal feild |
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MIT solar decathlon #4 Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 270 seconds part 4 of 4 american builder coverage of MIT solar decathlon project |
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MIT solar decathlon #3 Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 235 seconds part 3 of 4 of American builder coverage of MIT solar decathlon project |
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MIT solar decathlon #2 Posted by: eebuilder
Video duration: 384 seconds second of 4 part video coverage of MIT solar decathlon project |
