{"id":2333,"date":"2006-12-13T02:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2006\/12\/13\/enertia-houses-heated-and-cooled-by-the-sun\/"},"modified":"2006-12-13T02:39:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-13T02:39:00","slug":"enertia-houses-heated-and-cooled-by-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/enertia-houses-heated-and-cooled-by-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Enertia: Houses Heated and Cooled by the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecosherpa.com\/green-energy\/house-heatedcooled-entirely-with-solar-energy\/\">Bentley at EcoSherpa<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hugg.com\/story\/Heat-Cool-Your-House-With-Only-Sun\/\">linton at Hugg<\/a>, for drawing attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/enertia.com\/index.htm\">Enertia Building Systems<\/a>. I pointed to a variety of ways to <a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablog.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/brits-developing-super-boiler.html\">heat<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablog.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/high-school-students-create-high.html\">cool<\/a> your home over the years, but this is truly revolutionary: Enertia homes use only sunlight for heating and cooling.  No furnace, air conditioner, heat pump or swamp cooler &#8212; just an innovative design that harnesses geothermal energy and sunlight year round.  According to Enertia&#8217;s web site,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the Enertia\u00ae Building System, 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 &#8211; 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 &#8220;float&#8221; between the cycles of night and day, and even between the seasons&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Their page on <a href=\"http:\/\/enertia.com\/science.htm\">the science behind the system<\/a> expands upon the explanation in the video. While other materials can be used to build homes that need no heating or cooling (my great-uncle, for instance, built rammed-earth houses in the 70s), Enertia&#8217;s houses combine their zero-energy heating and cooling properties with design that conforms to most people&#8217;s idea of a house.  I&#8217;m really impressed, and will have to read more&#8230; love to hear from those of you with more knowledge of materials, building construction and basic physics&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/house\" rel=\"tag\">house<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/home\" rel=\"tag\">home<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/solar\" rel=\"tag\">solar<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/heating\" rel=\"tag\">heating<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/cooling\" rel=\"tag\">cooling<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/design\" rel=\"tag\">design<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/us\" rel=\"tag\">us<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to both Bentley at EcoSherpa, and linton at Hugg, for drawing attention to Enertia Building Systems. 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