Perceiving How Passive Solar Heating Technology Can Lessen Power Consumption In Your Home
January 19, 2010
Passive solar heating uses the the sun’s rays to regulate the atmosphere of the house warmth during the cool days and coolness during warm ones. As compared to dynamic solar heating which needs fans, air conditioners and similar machines to regulate house temperature, passive solar heating employs only elements built into the house design. In Orlando cooling the house rooms can be heavy on air conditioners, so that the passive solar design can ease the electricity load somewhat. On the other hand, in Orlando heating the house is not often needed even in the cold season.
In essence, passive solar heating is achieved by allowing the sun to warm up a certain space within or outside the house proper, and then making this warmed air enter to warm the house interior. This is generally performed via ventilation openings which can be manipulated to close or open depending on the needs, allowing in air via the convection process. To cool the house, the sun is foiled from heating the room and any warmed air is pushed outside to let cooler air to move in.
Most times, the area where the air is warmed before drawing it within the house is called the sun room. It is an enclosed space with stone or concrete floor, metal wall frame painted black or dark colors and glass roof and sides. The dark color, stone or concrete and glass are all designed to let in the rays and soak in the heat they have. When sufficient air is warmed, the convection opening of the house at the roof side of the sun room is opened to bring the heated air within the house, while allowing new air to enter the sun room via vents near the floor.
When coolness instead of warmth is desired, the sun room is blocked to the rays by drawing in insulated blinds right under the roof. By drawing in the blind, a passage is created between the blinds and the roof where the warmed can pass on its way outside, through a port at the highest part of the roof. In this way the interior of the sun room is not warmed, and instead is filled with cool air flowing from below and allowed to flow also into the house. The system results in less expense on power used in operating the air conditioner or the radiator.
Passive solar heating is best designed into the house construction, although it may also be as explained above an addition if space allows. Except for space and expense advantages or limitations, either method is as good as the other. It merely depends on the residents and the configurations of the yard space and the house itself, and designs can be created to take them into the specifications. What is important is that the idea is employed for the benefit of the residents and Mother Nature via less use of conventional fuel in making and consuming electricity and other non-renewable energy sources. Why not sample it? It could be of amazingly great boon.
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