The Best Ways to Use Passive Solar Home Plans

While there are many ways to make active solar power and integrate it into your home, you should always use passive solar power techniques as well.   Passive solar power for your home will involve using the sun’s power and light  without a mechanical system as an electrical solar panel.  These passive systems can turn that hot sunlight into an energy that can be used to heat up some water or a thermal object, and can also cause hot currents of air to circulate using very few components.

I was recently in a home that uses passive solar power to heat the entire house.  The side of the house that gets the most sunlight throughout the winter months is full of glass windows and acts like a green house when the sun hits them.  But the house was built in such a way that the sun will automatically heat up the air and start the ventilation process of circulating the warm air through the entire house.  In the summer time the blinds had to be closed on the windows because that front porch could heat up to 130 degrees in no time.  That’s the power of the sun, so it just makes sense to use this energy for our energy needs.

An example of active solar power would be a solar panel which turns that sunlight into electricity and then sends that power to a set of batteries for later consumption to power household items in the home.  I recommend using both passive and active solar power to use the suns power to its fullest, but many do not realize the potential of passive solar energy.

There are plans for passive solar heating all over the place and they include devices such as hot water heaters, solar ovens or cookers (which are great for camping), space heating, solar chimneys, and many other items.

By using mirrors to concentrate to sunlight into one specific area you can maximize the potential energy of passive solar power.  The uses of these systems is not as wide spread but it is starting to catch on in more remote places where energy is needed but not just for electrical needs.  The more that passive solar power is used for things like cooking and heating, the less you will need to use the active solar panels to power those needs in the home and the more power you will have for other things.

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