Passive Solar, Energy Efficient Home With A Trombe Wall?

March 3, 2010 · 8 comments

in solar energy


This passive solar home is designed to capture and store the suns energy in the windows. These windows contain more than 3,000 pounds of water capable of storing 75,000 Btu’s of energy on a good su…

{ 8 comments… read them below or add one }

1 RMCrowley March 3, 2010 at 9:56 pm

awesome…

2 hoysima March 3, 2010 at 10:22 pm

Very good idea.Really nice, but i think it’s not a trombe wall.About Celsius and Fahrenheit,°C = (°F – 32)*(5/9)There is another, not exactly but easier:°C = °F/2 – 15

3 chrisdjonestube March 3, 2010 at 10:41 pm

I apologise but I am not familiar with the farenheit system, but where I live we can bet on the temperature getting to -40 degrees celsius annually… these things would certainly freeze and crack up in that kind of cold wouldn’t they?

4 trailkeeper March 3, 2010 at 11:14 pm

Oil holds alot of heat, maby a bit more than water, maby clear mineral oil.

5 chrisdjonestube March 4, 2010 at 12:08 am

Now will these windows still allow a thermal wall of say brick or stone to collect passive solar heat over the course of a day or would they block out/ absorb all of that heat for themselves?

6 eebuilder March 4, 2010 at 12:19 am

Well I don’t know about -30 but this week with lows around 0 and highs in the teens the house did not get below 42F with no other heat. Today with a night time low of 0 and a high of 18F the windows warmed the house from 42F this morning to 49F this afternoon. Tom

7 kricotoy March 4, 2010 at 12:26 am

same question…?on winter -25 or -40in canada montreal

8 meuhey March 4, 2010 at 1:25 am

these arent working in cold winter?

Leave a Comment

Spam Protection by WP-SpamFree

Previous post:

Next post: