Your Southernmost Window
A series of programs for TV, videotape, DVD, the Internet, and other media
What you can do with one south-facing window, or how to live within a solar budget, including designs viewers can replicate at home to provide heat, light, ventilation, and/or stimulate ecological growth.
Program 1. What You can See from a Window - one square foot of sunlight, orientation to the sun, design principles, window types, glazing, heat loss, infiltration, insulation, heating ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC), air purification, breathing
Program 2. Every Window in the House - window types take 2, radiation and convection, caulking and weatherstripping, drafts and infiltration, how to chart your airflows, how to use them, window insulation, whole house HVAC
Program 3. The Electric Window - solar electricity/photovoltaic/PV, small battery charger, solar/dynamo flashlight radio, one window systems, permanent emergency capacity, battery switching, your bike and car
Program 4. Hot and Cold Windows - windowbox heaters, passive and active ventilators, advanced airflow usage, active and passive water heating, your northernmost window, a nod towards refrigerators and low heat differential heat pumps
Program 5. The Greenhouse Window - windowsill gardens, bubbling out/bubbling in, heat storage, aquaculture, vermiculture, and ecological housekeeping, the neighborhood
Program 6. Most Windows in Town - what if everybody did it?, the economics of sunlight, systems thinking from community to region to country to world, globalization of solar physics
A work in progress
Further information available at
http://gmoke.dailykos.com
http://solarray.blogspot.com
More video at
http://www.youtube.com/...
http://www.youtube.com/...
http://energyvision.blogspot.com
I believe we can live comfortably within our present solar footprint. All we have to do is use a little imagination. When you teach someone to use the sun effectively and affordably, you change the energy, social, and political system profoundly.
In WWII there were posters that read "All fuel is scarce," "Oil is ammunition," and asked "Should brave men die so you can drive...?"
That's one reason why, in these days of global guerrillas and global guerrilla war, I say
Solar IS Civil Defense