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I want to build a prototype experimental Skytherm roof on a garden shed or tiny house as a proof of concept to reduce home energy consumption for heating and co
by dave333 5y ago
I want to build a prototype experimental Skytherm roof on a garden shed or tiny house as a proof of concept to reduce home energy consumption for heating and cooling. See http://www.solarmirror.com/fom/fom-serve/cache/30.html http://www.solarmirror.com/fom/fom-serve/cache/30.html for the concept. The idea is to have shadable thermal mass on the roof that will gain solar heat during winter, but in summer operates in reverse shaded during the day to prevent heating, but open to the sky at night to allow any heat buildup to radiate into space. Goal would be year-round interior temperatures in the range 60-80 degrees F without any additional heating/cooling. I am thinking the solar mass could be bricks or water bladders or bags of phase change material (e.g. snowmelt calcium chloride). The glazing could be cheap polycarbonate roof panels, and the shading can be motorized roller blinds or miniblinds. Could be operated manually or could be motorized and automated with custom arduino/raspberry pi controllers. Can measure temperature and humidity at various points in the building using cheap DHT11 arduino sensors.
I am retired and don't have the space or physical capability to build this at my home so I'm looking for someone who has or wants to build a shed or tiny house and who has basic construction ability. I can help with basic design and maybe arduino prototyping and scripting. If it works I'd like to put it on the web so anyone could copy it and be confident it would work. Phase 2 might be doing the same with a manufactured/mobile home.
- morphle 5y agopls contact me at morphle at ziggo dot nl so I get you in contact with a tiny house builder who will test your prototype on his houses and land
- fransje26 5y ago> "Because of its reliance on radiative cooling, the Skytherm concept is best suited for areas of low humidity and clear nights" Hopefully the tiny house builder has clients outside of the Netherlands. (-:
- morphle 5y agoYou can get a hightech offgrid mobile tiny house in Arizona, California, Portugal or Spain with a large roof water tank for thermal mass. Soon we will start offering this Skytherm addition so you can regulate the water temperature, but first we want to build this first prototype. The Fiberhood Coop construct the custom "software defined" tiny houses in Spain and ships them worldwide.
- dave333 5y agoNot sure how much cooling is needed in the Netherlands. I know UK houses generally do not have AC.