Mashrabyia – cooling niche
Mashrabiya was, and still is, a popular construction element of the urban multi-storey houses in the Middle and the Middle east, or North Africa. It's about the niche in the first and higher floor
Darrieus wind turbine
Buoyancy vertical omnidirectional turbine. Buoyancy means that revolves thanks to the difference in pressure between the two sides of the driving blades. Vertical indicates the deposit of its rotational axis perpendicular to the surface, what makes it even
Solar stone bed
Solar stone bed is the way of storing the energy of the Sun into the stone under the slogan: "What I store during the day will keep me warm in the evening."
Green facade– natural shield against overheating the house
I'm sure you've already seen houses with walls overgrown with the vegetation. Above all, such a house has a nice view. The green color is soothing. The house is also more involved in the immediate vicinity and resonate with
Socrates ' solar house
Already the ancient Greeks didn't want in their homes in the winter freezing and summer boil. Therefore, devising solutions for its time very progressive. At present, many architects are turning to
Bâdgir – wind tower (scraper wind)
Temperatures are rising, and central Europe, including our country is slowly moving from a moderate podnebného zones to the subtropics. Ancient cooling and ventilation inventions that I still could only see in the south
Energy from biomass
What is biomass and how it used for heating, electricity production, or drive a car, this is discussed in the book Energy from biomass.
Convection solar panel – Morse wall
We will focus on the invention, which became the springboard for the Trombe wall and in the currently experiencing a renaissance, though it is still in the shadow of the more popular solar water heating. We'll be the Sun to warm the air.
Trombe wall
Popular, timeless, simple and fairly inexpensive. It might sound a brief characteristic of the passive tempering rooms the energy of the Sun using a trombe wall.
Wind-powered heating eddy current
The name refers to the wind turbine rotating permanent magnet stored in a hollow cylinder filled with fluid, which in this way we are trying to warm up. The whole magic is on the eddy currents, also referred to as Foucaultův