With the hunt for alternative energy sources coupled with technological innovations, wood no longer remains just a structural component, or a decorative trim or paneling. It can now be transformed into energy storage.
This is exactly what the 2007 Modern Marvels Invent Now Challenge award winner, the Enertia Building System has done. Its technology has turned a piece of wood into a ‘thermal battery!’
The wood house becomes a solar energy storing device, and once properly configured and sited it can heat and cool itself. This new technology is especially applicable to solid wood homes, so, more wood means more effective heating and cooling system of the house.
The solid Gluelam walls by Enertia Building Systems maximize the energy-storing potential of the wood homes.
These energy efficient homes are environment-friendly as well, as they ‘sequester carbon’ in their massive wood walls. To add to reducing carbon emissions – the key source of greenhouse gas — these new automated, natural heating and cooling system reduces carbon pollution from the burning of fossil fuels.
With the world up with arms to battle global warming, this breakthrough invention surely has a global potential.
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