Passive solar heating doesn’t have anything to do with solar panels, photovoltaic cells, or any other technology. The whole idea is to build and situation your home in such a way as to harness a maximum amount of the sun’s energy in the winter, while blocking the sun’s rays from heating your home in the [...] Read more »
Solar Energy
What is Solar Energy? How it Works and Why Solar energy is radiated from the sun through forms of heat and light, this powers the Earth’s climate and sustains life. Today’s technologies can make use of this energy resource. Simply, solar power is the conversion of sunlight into electric power. The technologies that are used [...] Read more »
Heating Water using Solar Power
When you think about it we should be able to use the massive amounts of power from the sun not just for heating domestic hot water but for much more of our energy needs, including electricity generation. Scientists have been working hard to make this feasible but it is far from being completed and we [...] Read more »
Storing Solar Energy
There is a huge and virtually endless source of energy that radiates from the sun but until we know how to store it better most of it is wasted for our purposes. Simply put, finding new ways of storing solar energy more efficiently is vital to reduce our dependance on other non-renewable energy sources. At [...] Read more »
Passive Solar Energy for Heat and Cooling
It might seem strange but solar energy can be used for both heating and cooling down a building, provided the right technology is used. Passive solar technology offers direct and indirect gain for heating spaces, water heating systems, use of thermal mass and also phase change materials which are able to control the temperature inside [...] Read more »