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  2. Autonomous building - Wikipedia

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    In these climates, a solar installation might not pay for itself or large battery storage systems are necessary to achieve electric self-sufficiency. [11] In stormy or windy climates, wind turbines can replace or significantly supplement solar power. [12] The average autonomous house needs only one small wind turbine, 5 metres or less in ...

  3. Off-the-grid - Wikipedia

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    Grid-connected buildings receive electricity from power plants, which mainly use natural resources such as coal and natural gas as energy to convert into electrical power. 2017's breakdown of world energy sources [6] shows that the globe, mainly dependent on grid power, uses a majority of non-renewables, while popular renewables such as solar PV and wind power are a small portion.

  4. Double envelope house - Wikipedia

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    A double envelope house is a passive solar house design which collects solar energy in a solarium and passively allows the warm air to circulate around the house between two sets of walls, a double building envelope. This design is from 1975 by Lee Porter Butler in the United States.

  5. Passive solar building design - Wikipedia

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    A heat pump might use 1 J for every 4 J it delivers giving a COP of 4. A system that only uses a 30 W fan to more-evenly distribute 10 kW of solar heat through an entire house would have a COP of 300. Passive solar building design is often a foundational element of a cost-effective zero energy building.

  6. Solar architecture - Wikipedia

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    Solar energy is clean and renewable. Solar architecture is designing buildings to use the sun's heat and light to maximum advantage and minimum disadvantage, and especially refers to harnessing solar power. It is related to the fields of optics, thermics, electronics and materials science. Both active and passive strategies are involved.

  7. Solar power - Wikipedia

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    Solar power, also known as solar electricity, is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV) or indirectly using concentrated solar power. Solar panels use the photovoltaic effect to convert light into an electric current . [ 2 ]

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