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Homes That Use Thermal Inertia to Maintain Comfortable Temperatures
By harnessing the ability of materials to store heat and give it off slowly, “Enertia” houses maintain a relatively fixed and comfortable temperature
Enertia is a brand name for homes designed and sold in kits by North Carolina-based Enertia Building Systems (EBS). The idea essentially marries the concepts of geothermal and passive solar heating/cooling into what [...]
Challenges To Environmentally Responsible Energy Use In Today’s Society
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Remember your first drive down the coast in your beat-up convertible, the ocean breeze tousling your hair, which at the time was still gloriously plentiful and, you hoped, desperately attractive to the person sitting next to you?
If that’s a California cliché, or if you never had a convertible, or if your hair was [...]
Bringing Sunlight Inside
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Photovoltaic panels have a new design: concentric circles that focus the sun’s rays on miniaturized modules. Having the panels automatically sense sunlight and turn towards it also makes these high-tech solar cells more efficient.
Solar energy technology is advancing daily. Now, a new, high-tech system is working to efficiently harness the power of [...]
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