13th-June-2007, 06:05 PM
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There's a pretty cool house design called Enertia that doesn't have any heating or cooling devices.
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solid Energy-Engineered(tm) wood walls replace siding, framing, insulation, and paneling. An air flow and access channel, or Envelope, runs around the building, just inside the walls - creating a miniature biosphere. Here solar heated air circulates, pumping and boosting geothermal energy from beneath the house, storing it in the massive wood walls. Thermal inertia causes the house to "float" between the cycles of night and day, and even between the seasons.
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http://enertia.com/Science/HowItWork...8/Default.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR0BhPhEqMA&e
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