Over the course of my 35-year career, I’ve designed a variety of passive solar houses throughout the country using different configurations of south-facing windows, sunrooms and other passive ...

Passive solar heating works by maximizing solar heat ... regulate the rest of the home’s temperature. It’s similar to a sunroom, Orzech explained, “but instead of a whole room, it's a ...

To realize the full benefits of your sunroom addition, you’ll need to incorporate the basic elements of passive solar design: orientation, glazing, thermal mass, insulation and ventilation.

Instead, her home makes use of passive solar energy to stay cool. Overhangs block the high summer rays of the sun; this winter, windows on the southern wall will allow the lower-angled rays to ...

It’s nearly impossible not to feel good in Luke and Sarah Cellier’s passive-solar home above the Back River in Georgetown ... For heat, the house relies entirely on two plant-filled, south-facing ...

Isolated gain is the other type of passive solar heat. A solarium or sunroom has a glass wall designed to trap the sun's heat and warm a specific space that is somewhat removed from the main house ...

Dear Jim: I want to add a solar sunroom for inexpensive extra living space and so it will help heat our house. I would like to build a kit myself or to make one from scratch. What things should I ...

All of the glass area offers the possibility of free solar heating for your house and other uses such as growing plants. A conservatory is actually just a type of sunroom, but with some specific ...

Tomato plants grow in a passive solar greenhouse at Fresh Pal Farms near Olds, Alta., in early December 2021. Last year, it produced more than 13,000 kilograms of tomatoes alone, while relying on ...