This is a video of the Passive Solar Heating System in use at www.envirosponsible.com in Whitby, Ontario, Canada. It provides a great deal of heat, and the installer, Chris, will be making it more effecient by adding a second computer fan to push the warm air at the top, painting the inside better and taping the duct work. Also, the duct work will be directed into the office where the door can be closed and used in a smaller air mass. This kind of heater is ideal for urban survival and bugging in, since it requires no power input and is cheap and easy to make. It’s not just for strawbale, cob, cabins, cottages, earth ships or businesses. They can be installed on a home, and they look great when done right. Ragnar Benson would be proud. Visit our site at envirosponsible.com or call us at 905-666-2002.
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@brotherkantutta You are the idiot… He is doing a good job. The panel is heating an interior room, without creating a cooling problem in the summer. It is people like you that keep people like him from sharing ideas with the world, therefore making it a better place. You run your mouth, and make the world a worse place. If you cant improve on peoples work, let them be, instead of givin’ them grief.
I want to do it on my place.
Chad, I like it. Not sure if you still have it installed but if you do, think about putting a one way baffle on the intakes. This way when the sun drops cold air doesn’t come back out through them. Remember the convection effect you are trying to take advantage of works both ways, the heat rising when the sun is up, the cold dropping when the sun is down, so you could in fact cancel all heat you captured during the day but cooling the building at night. It’s a cool project.
@ everyone who thinks the outlet belongs on the floor… Look at the heater outlet in any modern house, they are all on the wall near the ceiling. The intake should be near the floor and the outflow above so the cold air will be forced through the system. Also I forgot to mention below you need to have both the intake and outflow in the room being heated so the warmed air can recirculate through the system.
The fan should be sucking the air through the outlet instead of blowing in. You are losing over half the fans energy. Otherwise you did a great job, I like how you used an existing window.
Just let the sunshine come in you idiot.
@taruchansun; heat up a fluid such as water, and run it through baseboards. simple, effective, and is greatly more efficient.
@sircygnus so what would your suggestion be?
how would they make it go below?
why would you pump heat from the ceiling down into the room? you need to pump the heat into the room from a vent in the floor as heat will rise. all you are doing is warming the ceiling.
The color white reflects heat
and black absorbs heat the absorbed heat is transferred to the air flow
and moved to someplace with little to no heat a passive heat pump
@WasHighPingDuck having worked with concrete i can tell you it only has an R-value of one…no matter it’s thickness. Concrete is a terrible material to store heat or insulate from it.
@magicyte any municipality can have bi-laws on store front design. In Beamsville, ON a new pharmacy being built was having a legal fight with the town over a 40% windowed storefront law.
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I think this idea is novel but it lacks common sense here’s why. Most rooms are cold at the bottom because cold falls and heat rises so why would you force warm air from above the room why not the bottom first to get the bitter chill out because as the bottom will warm so will the top as well. Plus the fan for that setup is way under powered but being free to use is awsome.
@crazymonkeyVII The amount of energy that goes through the window is not a fuction of what is on the other side of the window. How that energy is managed is a function of what is on the inside of the window. Additional energy cannot be created. The energy can be concentrated, collected, moved, and repurposed but not created. Very little thermal energy is in the visible spectrum. IR spectrum is where most of the thermal energy is. You can reduce the energy lost out the window with insulation.
@zehboss not really true: a good solar air heater will concentrate the solar energy to make more heat. it converts the light to heat. if you just let it go through your window, the light will partly be used to lit up the objects in the room.
on the downside, if you have that massive thing in front of you’re window, so you’ll have to light up the room with an light bolt…… therefor, it would indeed be more practical to place it on the roof or somewhere where it’s not blocking the window….
@Umaxen Gain access?! The window has freaking bars blocking entry and exit.
@envirosponsible better re-read your blurb then it misleading
@zehboss You are right, but common sense still works. As far as fixing bad windows, an insulated box makes it. It’s no longer a window, it’s an insulated wall plus an outside passive heater.
As far as DT is concerned, a good circulation of air (photocell supplied fan) would keep the confined space cooler and reduce conduction losses while recuperating radiation heat. At night, you stop the vents.
At this point, it is a clever building conversion project….
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@rouelibre1 If you have a bad window fix the window. You can reduce the amount of thermal leakage, and air infiltration but those are different issues. You can move the heat around as well. If you trap high temperature air next to a bad window you would loose more thermal because of the higher delta T and the higher pressure because of the fan.
@zehboss There could be a-round-the clock net gain anyway. My brother had bad windows. On a ceiling track he suspended rigid foam panels covered in aluminium, bagged in color faric that he slid in front of the window at night time instead of blinds. It blocked a lot of radiated IR from inside-out and insulated better.
Now with that panel permanently attached, It would pick-up as much sun’s heat as a good window would and insulate day and night.
Back it with foam and foil.
@zehboss must be nice to be a know it all. You sound like an a**hole. Give constructive criticism without being such a douche bag. I don’t even know the guy in the video but people like you are why the world sucks.