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Originally Posted by TheIglu  Hell, I'd like to hear some more of my own ideas!
I'll keep you updated. Solar panels will sit atop my addition and it will be a south facing two story room with tons of glass and stone floors to soak up the passive solar. |
Yes, exactly the things I'd like to see incorporated into houses. How about radiant heat in that floor? How about a large insulated storage tank for when your boiler is producing excess heat that you don't need? How about a solar collector mounted somewhere on your property that has a loop into the storage tank to bring up the water temperature, even if it just preheats your domestic hot water in the warmer months. Hell, if your storage tank is located higher than your collector, you won't even have to pump the heated water. Or a solar collector that preheats the water for an instant on-demand hot water heater.
Maybe a masonry heater? A large mass of concrete with a heater in it that you burn for short time that gives off heat for days? Some radiant heat loops in the concrete mass?
I agree with Honclfibr, the economy is about to go into a massive shit slide, we are going to have to get used to living a different lifestyle.