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Green Grids Initiative — One Sun, One World, One Grid; Country: Global: Partners: International Solar Alliance, India, France, United Kingdom: Vision: The OSOWOG initiative aims to connect different regional grids through a common grid that will be used to transfer renewable energy power and, thus, realize the potential of renewable energy sources, especially solar energy.
MIT Solar House #1 The following buildings are of significance in pioneering the use of solar powered building design: MIT Solar House #1, Massachusetts, United States (Hoyt C. Hottel & others, 1939) Howard Sloan House, Glenview, Illinois, United States (George Fred Keck, 1940) "Solar Hemicycle", near Madison, Wisconsin, United States (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1944) Löf House, Boulder, Colorado ...
Picture of a Solar Compacting Trashcan Solar-powered fountain in a bird bath under shade versus direct sunlight. The following is a list of products powered by sunlight, either directly or through electricity generated by solar panels.
MIT's 1939 Solar House #1. Although earlier experimental solar houses were constructed using a mixture of active and passive solar techniques, some of the first European engineered passive solar houses of the modern era were built in Germany after World War I, when the Allies occupied the Ruhr area, including most of Germany's coal mines.
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.
Dover Sun House was one of the world's first solar-heated houses. It was designed by architect Eleanor Raymond and had a heating system developed by physicist Mária Telkes . In 1948, Mária Telkes and architect Eleanor Raymond began working on the Dover Sun House. [ 2 ]
Lee Porter Butler's 1975 Double Envelope (Shell) design [1] received wide publicity after the U.S. solar energy tax credits were created in 1978. Versions were on the cover of Better Homes and Gardens and Popular Science [2] magazines. Butler was an artistic/ecological building designer, a self-proclaimed "Ekotect."
It was named the world's largest solar-powered office building in 2009. Although it is not yet completed, the Solar City Tower in Rio de Janeiro is another example of what solar architecture might look like in the future. It is a power plant that generates energy for the city during the day while also pumping water to the top of the structure.