Enertia® Building System

Hybrid Solar House > Science > How It Works

In the
Enertia® 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 – 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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Peak Coal

Peak Coal – May Be Only Ten to Fifteen Years Away » Celsias

We’ve all heard the term ‘Peak Oil‘ (see also),
but, have you heard the term ‘Peak Coal’ before? A recent report
indicates this expression may become yet another unwelcome pairing of
words (like ‘global warming’, ‘global dimming‘,
‘energy conservation’, etc.) for the massive energy industries that
rely on the black gold. The new word on the street is coal production
could peak in as little as ten or fifteen years from now.

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