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Sun Position In Florida, Florida Solar Energy Center, Ross Mccluney
Sun Position In Florida, Florida Solar Energy Center, Ross Mccluney
FSEC Energy Research Center®
Described herein is a procedure for determining the path of the sun through the Florida sky relative to a solar collector array, a window, a skylight or an entire building - information needed by architects, engineers and others for shading and orientation calculations involved in active and passive building design. It can be used for positioning exterior shading devices for maximum benefit. This information can also be used to pinpoint solar collector shading problems.
Open-Cycle Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, Florida Solar Energy Center, Magdy Girgis
Open-Cycle Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, Florida Solar Energy Center, Magdy Girgis
FSEC Energy Research Center®
In May 1983 the Florida Solar Energy Center(FSEC) received $ 328,000 from the federal Solar Energy Research Institute in Colorado to determine the feasibility of an Open-Cycle Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) concept. The objective of the project is to assess the economic and technological viability of the conceptual design of an Open Cycle OTEC power plant. FSEC and Create R&D Inc., Hanover, New Hampshire, bring together complementary skills and experience in resource assessment, component design, system engineering and project management. FSEC also will study possible sites for an OTEC plant in Florida as part of a complementary project funded …
Photovoltaics: A Question And Answer Primer, Florida Solar Energy Center, Ingrid Melody
Photovoltaics: A Question And Answer Primer, Florida Solar Energy Center, Ingrid Melody
FSEC Energy Research Center®
Of all the solar energy technologies, photovoltaics (PV) show the greatest promise for worldwide acceptance and application. Their universal appeal lies in the fact that they generate electricity from the sun. Working photovoltaics have no moving parts, are relatively simple in design, need very little maintenance and are environmentally benign. They simply and silently produce electricity whenever they are exposed to light.
Passive Cooling Ideas For The Southeast, Florida Solar Energy Center, Chris Beck
Passive Cooling Ideas For The Southeast, Florida Solar Energy Center, Chris Beck
FSEC Energy Research Center®
A passively cooled home is one which is kept relatively comfortable through natural means. Homeowners in the Southeast have been using passive building techniques in order to live more comfortably during hot, humid seasons since the early 1900's. The concept of designing for minimum use of artificial cooling and heating systems is not new, but with the advent of sophisticated mechanical air-conditioning and heating systems and the availability of inexpensive fossil fuels in the '40s and '50s, builders began bypassing passive techniques. Too many of today's homes are designed with more concern about accomodating a mechanical conditioning system than with …
Designing And Installing Commercial Solar Pool Heating Systems, Florida Solar Energy Center, Douglass E. Root
Designing And Installing Commercial Solar Pool Heating Systems, Florida Solar Energy Center, Douglass E. Root
FSEC Energy Research Center®
Solar heating of swimming pools is an economically attractive utilization of Florida's abundant solar resource. The temperature requirement is lower than that of domestic or service water heating, lower than that for building heating and far lower than that for solar powered air conditioning. Florida's year-round mild and sunny climate allows swimming during much of the winter, so a properly heated pool is economically attractive.