Passive solar building design : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_solar_building_design#...
Low-energy house: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-energy_house
List of low-energy building techniques: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_low-energy_building_te...
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Maximum solar energy is on the equatorial side of the house.
Full-sun plants prefer maximum solar energy.
10ft (3m) underground it's about 75°F (24°C) all year. Geothermal systems leverage this. (Passive) Walipini greenhouses are partially or fully underground or in a hillside, but must also manage groundwater seepage and flooding; e.g. with a DC solar sump pump and/or drainage channels filled with rock.
Passive solar greenhouses (especially in China and now Canada) have a natural or mounded earthen wall thermal mass on one side, and they lower wool blankets over the upside-down wing airfoil -like transparent side at night and when it's too warm (with a ~4HP motor).
TIL an aquarium heater can heat a tank of water working as a thermal mass in a geodesic growing dome; which can be partially-buried or half-walled with preformed hempcrete block.
Round structures are typically more resilient to wind:
Shear stress > Beam shear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shear_stress
Deformation (physics) > Strain > Shear strain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deformation_(physics)#Shear_st...
GH topic: finite-element-analysis https://github.com/topics/finite-element-analysis
GH topic: structural-analysis: https://github.com/topics/structural-engineering https://github.com/topics/structural-analysis
What open source software is there for passive home design and zero-energy home design?
Round house: https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=round%20house
The shearing force due to wind on structures with corners (and passive rooflines) causes racking and compromise of structural integrity; round homes apparently fare best in hurricanes.
Walipini passive solar green houses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walipini
Earthship passive solar homes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthship
Underground living: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_living
Root cellar passive refrigeration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_cellar
Ground source heat pump (Geothermal heat pump) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_source_heat_pump
Solar-assisted heat pump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar-assisted_heat_pump
(Geothermal Power = Geothermal Electricity) != (Geothermal Heating)
Geothermal power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power
Geothermal Heating is so old, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_heating
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AC-to-DC (rectifier; GaNprime, GaN) and DC-to-AC (inverter) are inefficient conversions: it wastes electricity as heat.
Residential and Commercial AC electrical systems have a GFCI ground loop (for the ground pin on standard AC adapters)
USB > Power related standards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#Power-related_standards
Charging station > Charging time > charger specs table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charging_station#Charging_time
(Trifuel) generators do not have catalytic converters.
Wood stoves must be sufficiently efficient; and can be made so with a catalytic combustor or a returning apparatus (and/or thermoelectrics to convert heat to electricity).
/? Catalytic combustor (wood stove) https://www.google.com/search?q=%22catalytic+combustor%22
Wood-burning stove > Safety and pollution considerations > US pollution control requirements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood-burning_stove#US_pollutio...
Gravitational potential energy is less lossy than CAES Compressed Air Energy Storage is less lossy than thermal salt is less lossy than chemical batteries.
'Pain mound' low tech compost driven water heaters are neat too
For which types of compost is there risk of spontaneous combustion?
What design safety features are necessary for a heat pump to efficiently extract the heat of a wood boiler or a compost pile? Is it safe to locate them next to a heat pump or a dwelling or a thermoelectric boiler?
This is a pile of vaguely relevant facts...
I think in my HN comments I'd prefer a couple of facts and a conclusion, with citations for more detail.
What do you have for low energy, zero energy, passive solar homes?
Buy-all-sell-all says you can't use your solar to power your duct fans even when the grid is down?
Write me a ScholarlyArticle.