ZED Floor Plan, Passive Solar Thermal Buffer Zone
Saturday, January 9th, 2010 at
2:57 pm
refined Double Shell Thermal Buffer Zone transfers solar gain from the sunny side of the home, to the cold side of a Zero Energy Design building with NO electricity. We also describe summer Energy Recovery Ventilation solar cooling, and how we hide all solar panels and satelite dishes from view on all sides. By Larry Hartweg “Abundant Energy Man” ZEDmaster@ZeroEnergyDesign.com … Passive Solar Zero Energy Design Construction Sustainability Floor Plot Panels Natural Convection Air Flow …
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I'm a 38 year-old electrical engineer from Southern California.
I wonder what ZED thinks of Climategate and Co2 diffusers???
Thank you – Please see our website and ZED CD-ROM for 5,000+ pages of all details – Our extensive materials answer most of the questions we’ve been questioned over 30 years – Far more than any other single source in this world.
Brilliant. Order your CD. You completed my senior thesis on earth sheltered design and passive solar from 25 years ago.
Huge Thank you, you’ve given me my home.
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Take a look around Minnesota – Flat roofs are everywhere, especially commercial buildings, but, your comment is right – This house was designed for Florida – ALL zero energy buildings are VERY location specific, with extensive local computer thermal modeling required – A Florida design would not work well in Minn., but an off-the-grid zero energy design for Minn. is a reasonable goal.
I’m assuming that this home was designed for a warm climate. The flat roof wouldn’t work in Minnesota, for example.
See our many other YouTube zeroenergydesign videos, our websites, and Wikipedia entries.
We also have our 800-page Zero Energy design eBook and 1200 U.S. Department Of Energy Workshop (Three Decades Of Lessons Learned)slides available on a $25 CD-ROM, with hundreds of megabytes of energy saving and alternative energy bonus materials. It contains concepts we’ve used from Canada to Florida to Australia — (We can’t cover 30 years of ZED experience in a 10-minute YouTube video clip — Smile)
I adding this info right now to my Passive Home floorplan! i want more!
Fantastic concept, I’d like to build one. Might be helpful if you gave some specific examples of how it works in different locations though.