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.
A passive solar-heated home needs no solar panels to heat or cool it. Rather, the energy used to heat and cool a house comes directly from the sun through skylights and windows. Some of that energy is ...
Energy Exploration & Exploitation, Vol. 35, No. 6 (November 2017), pp. 748-766 (19 pages) Abstract Heat transfer through building envelopes constitutes the dominant part of indoor cooling load in ...
Researchers at Seoul National University have unveiled a groundbreaking thermal management technology capable of selectively implementing cooling and heating functions using a single material and ...
Researchers in China have just unveiled a new hybrid wind-solar heat pump that significantly improves energy efficiency and can reduce household energy costs by more than 50 percent. The innovative ...
Tested in an off-grid location in India, the proposed approach includes the use of thermal storage from PV modules’ excess heat for space and water heating. The optimum configuration for the system ...
A new proof-of-concept device trapped solar radiation and used it to heat an object to a blistering 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius), raising hopes that steel furnaces could be powered ...