This series describes the process of designing and building a sustainable home, which is passing tests for airtightness and proved to retain heat in winter. But the Xcel stumbling block has yet to be ...

According to environmentalist Aidan Charron: “Passive solar refers to the use of natural sunlight to heat and light your home without using solar panels or arrays or anything mechanical.

Researchers at Sohag University in Egypt have developed a passive cooling system for solar panels that uses a ... store and release large amounts of latent heat over a defined temperature range ...

Researchers in Iran developed a passive solar module cooling method using silicon carbide porous ceramic. When combined with ...

A research team at Korea University has created a passive cooling system for solar ... cooling system can absorb heat from solar radiation and desorb the solvent, which generates secondary cold ...

We can sometimes use the sun’s energy directly, like when we design homes to take advantage of passive solar heat. But when we want to use it for technology, we need ways to convert the sun’s ...

Other solar technologies are passive. For example, big windows placed on the sunny side of a building allow sunlight to heat-absorbent materials on the floor and walls. These surfaces then release ...