Find the best solar options for your home and budget. Find the best solar options for your home and budget. Since ancient times, people have found ways to use the sun’s heat to stay warm or keep cool.

As I discussed in last week’s column ("Resilience: Dramatically Better Building Envelopes," Jan. 4), a resilient home is extremely well-insulated, so that it can be kept warm with very little ...

Passive cooling is a key element of a larger strategy known as natural conditioning — heating, cooling, ventilating and lighting a building naturally, that is, without mechanical or electronic devices ...

Switch to solar with a system built for you. If you’re building a new home, it makes sense to do it in a way that employs free, renewable energy when it’s available. Most home designs don’t prioritize ...

Design a year-round solar greenhouse that is entirely self-sufficient, relying only on the sun to provide all of its heating needs while growing more than traditional greenhouses and using less energy ...

This second floor room takes advantage of the passive solar heat of the morning sun. ANA VENEGAS Fresno Custom Publications Photo When Chris Senior was in college in the ’70s, he was convinced energy ...

EASTON — Being called “passive” isn’t usually interpreted as a compliment. But, in the case of the house at 28 Drewbarrie Lane, it could be. The 4,548-square-foot Cape Cod is a passive solar home, ...

WATCH AND EMBED VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH RESEARCHER MARWA DABAIEH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7_CtReM2O4 Researcher Marwa Dabaieh from Lund University in Sweden has ...

Using a solar water heater can save a household significant money and help reduce local and regional emissions that cause air pollution. Although they do require a ...

Holographic optical elements (HOEs) are diffractive devices engineered through the recording of interference patterns in specialised photopolymer materials. Their ability to selectively modulate ...