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Solar Home with attached Solar Greenhouse

Solar Home and attached Greenhouse

Multi-tech conventional wood-frame solar home, designed and built by owner Susan Reycroft, features grid-tied photovoltaic (solar electric) panels, passive solar windows, solar thermal collectors for domestic hot water and space heating, and an attached solar greenhouse with a fan-driven “climate battery” to store excess heat and moisture under the earth floor for winter nighttime recovery.

rammed earth walls, straw bale walls on second floor, seven solar thermal panels on the roof for domestic hot water and radiant floor space heating, interior rammed earth walls for thermal mass heat storage and temperature modulation.

Passive Solar, rammed earth walls, straw bale walls on second floor, hot water, heat and temperature modulation

Passive solar home designed and built by Paul Shippee features rammed earth walls, straw bale walls on second floor, seven solar thermal panels on the roof for domestic hot water and radiant floor space heating, interior rammed earth walls for thermal mass heat storage and temperature modulation. See this house on the Solar Home Tour, …

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