Our Passive Solar Home - A Perfect Use of Solar Energy
We live in a passive solar home. We heat, cool and power our home using solar energy. We have even created a website that not only tells how we do it, but shows you as well using videos. We would like to show you what it is like living in a passive solar home. It is our goal to continually improve this site with new ideas.
You can also visit our website Living On Solar
You can also visit our website Living On Solar
What Is A Passive Solar Home?
Simply put, it is a house that is designed to take advantage of the heating properties of the sun. It uses free green solar energy as a heating source and in many designs, it does not even require any additional costs.
Our home takes advantage of this renewable energy. Our living room, dining room and all three bedrooms face the sun. During the winter months, our house is mostly heated this way. The savings in not using other non-renewable energy sources is significant.
Our passive solar home requires no additional maintenance. There are no filters to change or bills to pay. We just open the blinds and let the sun shine in.
There is a lot of talk these days about going green. Consider using passive solar design in your next home or addition.
Our home takes advantage of this renewable energy. Our living room, dining room and all three bedrooms face the sun. During the winter months, our house is mostly heated this way. The savings in not using other non-renewable energy sources is significant.
Our passive solar home requires no additional maintenance. There are no filters to change or bills to pay. We just open the blinds and let the sun shine in.
There is a lot of talk these days about going green. Consider using passive solar design in your next home or addition.
Passive Solar Home - Our Video
We live in a passive solar home
You can watch our passive solar video to see how it works. Other Uses For Solar Energy - Solar Air Conditioning
Build Your Own Solar Air Conditioner
We made a solar evaporative cooler to keep our home cool in the summer. You can use our plans and do the same.Watch our solar cooling video
Other Uses For Solar Energy - Solar Electricity
We generate our electricity using solar panels.You can watch our solar electricity video to see how it works.
Great Places To Find Solar Products
Real Goods Is A great place to find solar panels and all kinds of solar products
Solar Books
Here are some books we recommend.
Earth4Energy At Last! A complete plan to eliminate your power bill and pocket the savings for yourself!
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Home Made Energy Renewable energy for the rest of us. How Would You Like To UNPLUG Your House From Your Electrical Company, Knowing That You Are "100% Powered By Nature" With Renewable Energy?
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Earth4Electricity A Fast, Easy and Affordable Method for Building Your Own Professional Solar And Wind Power System.
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DIY Power System is a complete, Do-It-Yourself program, that's affordable and allows you to create your own home made electricity generators, batteries, bio-diesel and even build your own house!
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Great 5 Book Deal - 1. Build A Wind Generator 2. Biodiesel 3. Install Solar Panels 4. Build Your Own Home 5. Renewable Energy Solutions For Home. Find Free Solar Panels.Click Here for more information!
The Solar Power Design Manual will guide you smoothly through the complex process of designing, specifying and installing stand-alone solar power systems for all applications, anywhere in the world.Click Here for more information!
Great Stuff on Amazon
The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling
Amazon Price: $19.77 (as of 11/27/2009) 
Passive Solar House: The Complete Guide to Heating and Cooling Your Home
Amazon Price: $26.40 (as of 11/27/2009)
A Sampler of Alternative Homes: Approaching Sustainable Architecture
Amazon Price: $14.99 (as of 11/27/2009)
Passive Solar Energy Book
Amazon Price: (as of 11/27/2009)
The Passive Solar Primer: Sustainable Architecture
Amazon Price: $19.79 (as of 11/27/2009)
Passive Solar On The Living On Solar Blog
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Links To Solar Sites We Like
- Solar Air Conditioning
- We found a way to cool our home using an existing cooler and a tracking solar panel. We want to show others how we did it.
- Solar Electricity
- We live in an all solar home. We are glad to share what we have learned over the last 20 years about solar electricity.
- Solar Tracking
- We live in an all solar home. We made a small solar tracker for a solar panel that controls our solar evaporative cooler.
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- starsam starsam Feb 16, 2009 @ 9:49 am
- Your lens would be a great addition to the 'Solar Technology and Solar Energy' Group
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- JLongitude JLongitude Aug 17, 2008 @ 9:56 pm
- Great lens - I've read most of your recommended books.
Solar power is sort of like investing if you make the right choices up front it really can pay off big.
I like how you show that a typical homeowner building a house can save lots of money designing the home to take advantage of daylighting, shade in the summer and free heat in the winter.
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- Retsel Retsel Jul 23, 2008 @ 1:56 pm
- This lens has three great videos that show how to heat, cool and power your home with solar energy. The one that intrigues me the most shows how to build an evaporative cooler that actually runs off the sun. Ingenious.
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