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Here my idea for the roof. You could put skylights in which allow energy to hit the thermal mass. This thermal mass would then radiate on both sides so you could use a fan to circulate the heat to the interior. This could also work for the garage roof and then blow into the house rather than down into the garage. The issue with that is the skylights on the garage would not be perpendicular to the sun or close to for very long.
Hey Sean,
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if this applies to exactly the kind of solar power that you're researching, but I remember finding out a lot about solar hot water design for our sustainable cabin in Dale's class last year. Here's a link from the city of Victoria's website.
http://www.victoria.ca/assets/Departments/Planning~Development/Permits~Inspections/Application~Forms/CoV_solar_info.pdf
Howdy Sean!
ReplyDeleteJust a thought I've had in the past, but could it be possible to one day have skylights that have solar panels built into them? So from the exterior the skylight looks like a regular window, yet it is thicker than a usual window as it is housing a solar panel, but the window still lets light in? It could even create cool looking light patterns once the light passes through the solar panel component of the skylight and into the room?
I'm curious as to what the thermal mass would be made of? What would absorb the most amount of heat? From the diagram it also appears that the skylight will only serve the purpose of heating the mass. Perhaps the mass could be moved somehow if you preferred to have the light shine in.
ReplyDeleteAs it stands the mass could be made from concrete or water. I am going to test a scale version of both of these for my applied part of my research. That is exactly why I am looking into using water. Not only would it let sunlight in. It would always create a unique sunlight pattern.
DeleteExcellent topic Sean. It will be very interesting to see what you come up with. Solar hot water is very popular lately, it would be neat to consider a solar hot water panel as a skylight. Some sort of see-through technology in the panel would allow all sorts of light and patterns through
Deletethe reflective shade would be a great use in the summer to keep the house cool, but I'm wondering if the shade was left half closed in the winter would it let some of the reflected light from the thermal mass be reused by reflecting that light ray back to the thermal mass?
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