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  2. Passive solar building design - Wikipedia

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    In passive solar building design, windows, walls, and floors are made to collect, store, reflect, and distribute solar energy, in the form of heat in the winter and reject solar heat in the summer. This is called passive solar design because, unlike active solar heating systems, it does not involve the use of mechanical and electrical devices.

  3. Earthship - Wikipedia

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    The home, which was owned by Kevan and Gillian Trott, was built in April 2007 by Kevan, Mike Reynolds and an Earthship Crew from Taos, it was sold to a family in 2014. The design was modified for a European climate and is seen as the first of many for the European arena. It is currently used as a holiday home for eco-tourists. [24]

  4. Passive house - Wikipedia

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    The windows normally combine triple or quadruple-pane insulated glazing (with an appropriate solar heat-gain coefficient, [2] [60] low-emissivity coatings, sealed argon or krypton gas filled inter-pane voids, and 'warm edge' insulating glass spacers) with air-seals and specially developed thermal break window frames.

  5. Collecting solar energy with windows [Video]

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    Ubiquitous Energy CEO, Susan Stone, shares about a technology that uses windows as a way to harvest solar energy from the sun.

  6. Glass Ceiling: Solar Startup Wants to Electrify Your ...

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    Solar-technology developers want to put the walls and windows of your workplace to work for them. While most solar panels on buildings today perch atop the roofs of homes and businesses, these ...

  7. Daylighting (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Passive daylighting is a system of both collecting sunlight using static, non-moving, and non-tracking systems (such as windows, sliding glass doors, most skylights, light tubes) and reflecting the collected daylight deeper inside with elements such as light shelves.

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