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7614397 Solar energy storage system  
A method and apparatus for storing, transporting, and releasing high grade, thermodynamically useful energy for a wide variety of uses. Solar energy is collected and reflected onto a heat storage...
7337843 Solar blackbody waveguide for solar assisted oil recovery applications  
A method to enhance oil shale, oil sand, asphaltic crude oil, or other high viscosity crude oil production by using a solar blackbody waveguide to heat these formations in situ. A parabolic mirror...
7028685 Air conditioning system for buildings and air-conditioned building, especially a zero energy house  
A method of air-conditioning a building with low heat loss, having the following steps: providing a fresh-air/outgoing-air system for feeding fresh air through a heat accumulator being located...
6223743 Solar power generation and energy storage system  
A solar energy collection system harvests solar energy from large open areas. A length of flexible solar collector is provided for unrolling along a supporting surface. A first layer of the solar...
6220339 Energy system for buildings  
An energy system for buildings uses solar absorbers, heat exchangers and heat accumulators, and has the following features to improve the thermal balance of the building: the solar absorber has...
5954046 Heating and ventilation system for a building  
A system for heating and ventilating a building which includes a generally peripheral foundation element which supports the external walls of the building. Room air is heated and circulated below...
5826650 Devices and methods for utilization of intermittently available electric energy for heating and cooling of habitable structures  
Low-cost off-peak electric energy or electric energy from natural energy sources is used for heating of cooling of system air, which is moved in a closed circuit to heat or cool the energy storage...
5647343 Latent store  
The invention relates to a latent store with a photosensitive storage medium and a regenerating agent. To this end, an organic storage substance with at least two stable stereoisomeric...
5123247 Solar roof collector  
A solar roof collector comprising a plate collector with a plurality of transparent conduits to channel a thin film of water from an insulated reservoir in order to increase the temperature of...
5121789 Warm climate solar building  
A solar concrete slab building specifically for a warm climate area including a motorized blower fan and duct means connecting solar wall collectors or cool ambient air to a unique pattern of...
5103803 Heating and air conditioning solar heat accumulator  
The invention relates to a solar accumulator, which is used to collect the sun rays to heat a heat conductive fluid medium contained within a piping system and an arrangement of plates--file bricks...
5048507 Endothermic building  
With reference to FIG. 3, the sloping roof (250) of a building (10) incorporates inner and outer juxtaposed metal panels, (15, 16) spaced from each other to define passageways (20) which serve as...
4936290 Solar energy system  
A solar energy system includes fluidically innerconnected lower and upper collectors. The lower collector includes inner and outer cabinets with an interstitial space therebetween adapted to...
4703749 Solar apparatus  
An improved solar apparatus for heating above 100° C. is disclosed. Said apparatus comprises a solar collector means for heating a heat transferring gas, ducting means extending from said solar...
4686959 Thermal storage furnace system  
A thermal storage furnace system having a mixing means in fluid communication with both a thermal storage means and a thermal storage means bypass conduit for mixing both heated fluid from the...
4510992 Solar energy system  
A heat storage system intended for long term storage between seasons of surplus heat collected in a solar energy system for example, comprises one or several networks of ducts laid out in an earth...
4483318 Borehole reservoir  
A borehole reservoir includes a plurality of vertical boreholes (5, 6) in each of which there is arranged pipes (9, 17) for feeding water to and returning water from the boreholes. In order to...
4478210 Solar heating system  
A self-cooling solar forced air heating collector module, and method of constructing a plurality of the same in modularized array from standarized components, for a solar heating system. The...
4471760 Combined solar heater and collector  
A combined solar collector and storage device comprises a housing including a plurality of wire mesh racks for retaining and storing rock therein and also including a front face formed of mesh...
4462390 Modular solar greenhouse with elevated overhead heat storage material and movable insulation barriers and method and system for solar heating of attached living space using thermostat-controlled air circulation for harvesting heat  
A modular solar greenhouse incorporates rigid curving frames overhead with screw and nut tracks for ease of assembly and east side and west side end modules and advantageously employs a thermally...
4459177 Ground moisture transfer system  
A method and an apparatus is disclosed in which solar heated air is drawn down a hole in the earth by a draft from a solar heated convection column located above the surface of the earth, the hot...
4452227 Active thermal storage using the ground underlying a solar pond  
An apparatus is presented for actively using the ground underlying a solar pond for storage of heat accumulated in the pond. Heated water will be injected down shallow wells and percolated through...
4445499 Ground-storage of heat such as solar heat  
A method of storing thermal energy in a body which is in direct thermal contact with the surrounding earth. The energy is transferred to said ground body from heat absorbing devices, specifically...
4434785 Heat accumulator  
An underground heat accumulator of the low temperature type for storing solar energy from a solar collector (8) by means of a plurality of buried double pipes with an outer pipe (3) and an inner...
4425906 Solar heating system in a building  
Solar heating system in a building with a sun collector and a heat accumulating reservoir comprising a first circuit for circulating air in a closed system through the sun collector and the...
4412527 Greenhouse of an underground heat accumulation system  
A greenhouse of an underground heat accumulation system wherein the radiant energy of the sun or wasted thermal energy is accumulated in the soil below the floor of the greenhouse over a prolonged...
4398529 Solar heating wall  
A solar heating wall including a water pipe circulation system having a plurality of separate tubes, each formed as a loop, connected between a water supply and a return. The separate tubes are...
4397152 Solar furnace  
A solar furnace electricity generating system is provided herein. It includes a concentrator and accumulator for the sun's rays to generate a concentrated high temperature solar beam. A heat hearth...
4393861 Apparatus for the utilization of solar energy  
Apparatus for the utilization of radiated solar energy to heat the interior space of a building includes a solar energy collector in the form of a south-facing wall, energy storage elements in the...
4375806 Heating system  
A heating system utilizing solar panels and buried ground conduits to collect and store heat which is delivered to a heat-pump heat exchanger. A heat-distribution fluid continuously circulates...
4373573 Long term storage and use of solar energy  
A method and system for the passive solar energy induced storage and use of thermal energy at both high and low temperatures, comprising a collector (76,110) communicating with the atmosphere for...
4340036 Solar heating system for a greenhouse or other building  
The present invention provides a solar heating system which is particularly suited for use in a building, such as a greenhouse, having walls defining an enclosed interior with at least one of the...
4340032 Solar heating system  
A subterranean furnace contains a shell in which a plurality of bricks are arranged in a mass. A mirror reflects sun light into the furnace chamber and onto a magnifying glass which concentrates...
4338921 Solar liquid heating system  
A solar liquid heating system having a collector receiving solar energy and heating a liquid. A liquid transfer pump moves the heated liquid to a heat transfer tank which heats water. The collector...
4327708 Solar siding for buildings  
Solar siding elements of very thin, high heat conductive sheet material are installed on the outer face of an exterior side wall of a building so as to form thereon a solar cover providing a...
4324289 Environmental heating and cooling apparatus  
An apparatus which is in one embodiment structurally integrated with a building and has a solar collector plate with a front side and back side. The collector is mounted a spaced distance from an...
4324227 Solar heat collecting panel  
A solar panel unit for heating circulating fluid has a plurality of preferably rectangular lenses for focusing and concentrating the sun's energy onto a heat-absorbing body through which a...
4305381 Solar air collector  
A solar heating system including a radiant heat collector apparatus made up of an enclosure having glazed panels. The collector provided within the enclosure is upstanding with the enclosure and...
4304219 Solar energy control system  
A solar energy control system for a hot air type solar energy heating system wherein thermocouples are arranged to sense the temperature of a solar collector, a space to be heated, and a top and...
4303058 Passive solar heating system  
A solar heated, passive storage heater located in a floor between stories of a multistory building. A heat storage medium composed of a one-foot thickness of rock is supported by modular wall...
4300532 Method and apparatus for collecting solar energy  
A method and device for collecting solar energy is the subject of this application. A glass cloth coated with a light absorbing resinous material is utilized as the collector panel. A glass cloth...
4299270 Earth energy sink  
The heat sink underlays the structure served and comprises a shallow permeable layer near the surface through which water is circulated and the earth mass below it with which heat is exchanged by...
4299178 Furnace and heat storage assembly  
A furnace and associated heat storage assembly includes a firebox arranged within a rock storage area that incorporates a recirculating flue arrangement for returning unburned gases to below a fuel...
4295415 Environmentally heated and cooled pre-fabricated insulated concrete building  
Environmentally heated and cooled pre-fabricated insulated concrete building is provided with a continuous layer of foamed insulation within all exterior walls. The building is constructed...
4294228 Solar heating and subterranean cooling  
A pyramidal-shaped living structure, having a triangular base plan, includes a pyramidal-shaped solar heating unit which forms the apex of the living structure. The heating unit contains a heat...
4294038 Solar panel window unit  
A solar panel device for use in combination with a window unit including a window frame and glass panels mounted in the window frame. The device is comprised of a shutter unit having one or more...
4289117 Solar panel unit and system for heating circulating air  
A solar panel unit for collecting solar heat and imparting it to circulating air has air flow directing means, desirably in the form of a perforated, corrugated baffle plate, sandwiched between a...
4289115 Heating and cooling of a heavily insulated building through the use only of solar energy  
This includes means and methods of keeping a heavily insulated shelter structure at a substantially even temperature night and day using only fueless solar energy to do so.
4286575 Solar heat system  
A solar air heating system for circulating heated air from a solar collector or a heat storage unit, or both in proportion to heat available from the collector, through a control chamber to an...
4286574 Trickle-type thermal storage unit  
A method and apparatus for thermal storage having a movable manifold which discharges thermal transfer fluid to trickle through a particulate solid thermal storage medium to be collected for...
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