Some iconic shows like "Eureka", and movies like "Smart House", have touched upon the idea of a futuristic house that can interact with its occupants. Though we may not be there yet, we seemed to have industrialized a house that can actually meet its own vigor requirements, and then some. Dream a house that can not only meet its own power requirements, but actually create a surplus of energy, effectively turning it into a small power plant. Well, you don't have to Dream it anymore.
Thanks to the innovative thinking of Neumann Developments, we have reached a new error for mankind. They have not only designed a house that meets its own power requirements, they built it. They have even supplied it with adequate solar power generating technology that it can actually furnish electricity for the utility associates to use. Now that they have done all the work in creating the blueprints and turned it into a real life example of what is possible, we may no longer have an excuse for our weighty fossil fuel consumption. This house requires actually no fossil fuel to operate.
Energy Producing Home
Neumann Developments, the creators of this new vigor effective home, stated the following as their overall goal of the project:
"Constructing an economically viable mainstream home that will yield more vigor than it consumes - allowing for a dramatic discount in greenhouse emissions and dependency on foreign oil. Proceeds from the sale of this home will be donated to Educational Enterprises, a non-profit inner-city network of schools whose mission is to inspire, support, and equip the next generation to become serving leaders."
The house that they have constructed is placed in Wisconsin and was just recently sold for 0,000. This price may seem a miniature steep in today's bad housing market, but just wait until you read what this house is capable of.
From the front view of the house you would never be able to tell that it could very well report the future of our vigor consumption and the end of our dependency on foreign oil. Once you take a meander into the backyard it all becomes clear. With two separate cutting edge solar power arrays just sitting ideally by, collecting vigor from the sun.
One is the 2.96kW Wattsun tracking solar array, which is actually capable of following the sun as it moves. It does this straight through a request for retrial sensor mounted on the top. This allows for maximum exposure and solar vigor capture. This array is capable of producing as much as 4,600kWh a year.
The other solar array in the yard is a dual panel array specifically designed/set-up for the heating of the houses water supply. This array is capable of supplying the house with 75% of its hot water needs. The other 25% is in case,granted by an galvanic water heater placed in the houses basement, which is powered by another solar array. Once the solar powered hot water tank is depleted, the galvanic one kicks right in.
In addition to those two solar arrays, there is another that is placed on the roof of the house. This one is a weighty 11.44kW Photovoltaic solar array that is able to yield up to 14,700kWh annually.
All of the vigor that is captured by these solar arrays is in the form of direct current (Dc) vigor and needs to be converted into alternating current (Ac) vigor to be compatible with the houses vigor intake components. This is done by the houses built in inverters.
The key to this whole theory is more than just a bunch of solar panels. It is a unique and delicate theory that incorporates the use of solar power in conjunction with other elements like geothermal heating and cooling. The house has a geothermal theory that runs from about 8ft under the foundation of the house right into the basement. This theory is what provides the house with vigor effective heating and cooling straight through the warm and cold seasons. It provides this by an secret loop field that carries a glycol clarification to and from the houses heat pump.
At about 8ft below the surface of the Earth it is a pretty constant climatic characteristic of 54 degrees. In the summer months this theory utilizes this natural coolness and brings it up into the house straight through the leap field replacing the warm air with the coldness from the ground. In the winter months it does the opposite. It takes the coldness out of the air in the house and throws it back down into the Earth via the loop field.
Another key element in this houses vigor efficiency is how well it is sealed and insulation. It was so well constructed that they needed to add a heat exchanging ventilation system. This theory provides clean fresh air without having to open windows or leave doors open, which effectively keeps all the warm and cold air where it is supposed to be.
All of this green technology including: the solar power arrays, the geothermal vigor theory and all the extra insulation costs about 0,000 to be installed. The good news is, with all the federal and state incentive programs, the net cost to the midpoint taxpayer could be as low as half that amount, ,130. Even the installation of one of these elements could prove to save you a large whole of money on your next galvanic bill.
Though the whole can vary, depending on the whole of vigor usage being consumed by the house, on midpoint the house is capable of producing duplicate the vigor requirements that is needed to fully control and mouth a suitable living environment. There is ordinarily so much vigor left over that the house actually becomes a money machine.
The whole of vigor that the house uses will of policy fluctuate depending on what appliances are being used and what time of the year it is, but it is safe to appraisal that at any given time, providing good sun exposure, the house can produces nearby 5,275W of vigor and only uses about 1,000W of it. Even if the house was running at the duplicate minimum operating power requirements, it would still be producing an extra 3275W of vigor at any given time.
The houses galvanic bill for the month of July, 2009 was negative 8.16. This resulted in the utility firm buying the unused vigor from the house by cutting a check to the owner for 8.16, which basically turned the house into a mini solar power plant. The total whole of vigor that the utility firm was able to add to their power grid from this one house for the one month of July was 3543kW.
This house produces so much extra vigor that the owner could actually payment an galvanic car on a regular basis and still have adequate extra vigor to be eligible for a check from the utility company.
Considering that the cost of cooling and heating could skyrocket at anytime, and is likely to, implementing some of these vigor effective elements into your own house could drastically pay off in the near future. With all the federal and state incentive programs that are available, in the long run, it actually would be worth the costs to make your house greener. Who knows, one day the galvanic firm may be paying you for energy.
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