Stanford’s Start.Home project tries to add some freshness to prefab housing by creating one “core” with all the needed equipment, around which you can build whatever house you want. Modular buildings ...

SAN ANTONIO — As inflation causes mortgages to rise, so does the cost of energy such as electricity. But what if a house was completely self-sustainable? That was the idea that motivated a group of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The house is cool, but most homes are these days, in the sweltering summer heat. Here, though, it should be hot. Or at least, the air-conditioning should be ...

How difficult is it to design a house fully powered by the sun? That’s what the U.S. Department of Energy is trying to find out. To do this, they have staged, once again, the Solar decathlon, a ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Michigan Solar House, a completely solar-powered, renewable energy dependent 459 square foot ...

Alexis Issaharoff, the chief renewable energy officer for Jubaili Bros, said that the sustainable solar house is designed to teach children and adults about sustainability and renewable energy.

Equipped with a 9kW building integrated solar power system that can operate independently in the event a storm shuts down the grid, SURE HOUSE also boasts super-tight insulation for optimum energy ...

Buildings that are called “green” or “environmentally sustainable” are designed to use energy as efficiently as possible. The designers’ goals are to improve the quality of human life and to minimize ...

What’s cooler than a rotating house? One whose solar panels produce five times the energy the house uses. That’s pretty incredible, considering that even zero-energy structures are rare. German ...

Dean Solon stands out as one of the very few self-made billionaires to emerge from the U.S. solar industry, following the tremendous 2021 initial public offering on the Nasdaq of his solar-equipment ...

You don't need to build a house from scratch to take advantage of smart new solar technology, but that's exactly what 18 college and university teams did for the Solar Decathlon, a competition ...

"Never heard about the issue again." Home seller easily debunks solar panel myth overheard at open house: 'Don't believe the conspiracy theories' first appeared on The Cool Down.