(Solar Greenhouse Employment Project). Final report

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:5512940

A project is presented that used workshops to develop the means for the building of low cost passive solar space and water heating devices for farm communities in Pittsboro, North Carolina. Not only the farm community, but also small town and urban people have enthusiastically participated. The reason for the participation in these efforts has been their availability as well as because the devices are low cost and they produce energy savings directly or indirectly. People have come together in workshops to build, for themselves, or others, devices (i.e., vertical wall collectors, window box collectors, bread box hot water heaters and solar greenhouses) that directly impact energy utilization. The frustration however has been that data on energy savings is anecdotal and that the participation of the agriculture community has been residentially related and not agriculturally related.

• Research Organization: Solar Greenhouse Employment Project, Pittsboro, NC (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: FG44-80R410283
• OSTI ID: 5512940
• Report Number(s): DOE/R4/10283-T1; ON: DE85015572
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
140901* -- Solar Thermal Utilization-- Space Heating & Cooling
140907 -- Solar Thermal Utilization-- Water Heating
141000 -- Solar Collectors & Concentrators
AIR HEATERS
APPLIANCES
ATTACHED GREENHOUSES
BUILDINGS
CONSTRUCTION
COST
ENERGY SYSTEMS
EQUIPMENT
FEDERAL REGION IV
GREENHOUSES
HEATERS
HEATING SYSTEMS
HOUSES
MARKET
NORTH AMERICA
NORTH CAROLINA
PASSIVE SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS
PASSIVE SOLAR WATER HEATERS
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
SOLAR AIR HEATERS
SOLAR COLLECTORS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS
SOLAR WATER HEATERS
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
TROMBE WALLS
USA
WALLS
WATER HEATERS