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Solar Lighting |
Tips For Daylighting with Windows
-- The Integrated Approach,
LBNL-39945,
Jennifer O'Connor
http://eetd.lbl.gov/btp/pub/designguide/dlg.pdf |
 Very
good and free design guide for daylighting. Includes many
techniques and guidelines for effective daylighting, and a quite
a few calculation tools and nomograms.
107 pages, 1997 |
| Designing with Lighting Chris
Herman
How to get articles from Home Power ... |
 Home
Power Article, Issue 109Good article on using natural
daylighting in homes. Good guidance on how to get natural
lighting while avoiding overheating. |
| IBACOS Light Guide The guide
www.ibacos.com/media/... pdf
The site:
http://www.ibacos.com/
|
 A
fairly useful guide for designing and choosing high performance
lighting.The "Room-by-room" and "Specifications of Fixtures"
sections have some pretty helpful information on what available
and how to design good lighting. |
| SunCatcher -- Solar Lighting and
Ventilation
http://www.sunpipe.co.uk/suncatcher/
And a small version:
http://www.sola-vent.com/ |
 An
interesting new product that provides both solar daylighting and
ventilation. |
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Sunshine From a Tube
Dan Chiras
Mother Earth News
http://www.motherearthnews.com
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 Mother
Earth News Article, Issue 202Good overview of using tubular
skylights to bring sunlight into a room. |
| SunPipe
http://www.sunpipe.co.uk/sunpipe/
SolaTube
http://www.solatube.com
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Two
of many commercial products that "pipe" sun light down through a
reflective tube to provide interior lighting. |
| Light Shelves
www.energybooks.com/pdf/10001005.pdf
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 The
article explains how light shelves work and provides some design
information. |
| Sun, Wind & Light, 2nd Edition
G.Z. Brown and Mark DeKay
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 An
architectural design strategies book with a number of practical
day lighting techniques that use direct or reflected sunlight
(it also provides many other solar heating and cooling design
strategies). Quantitative design and sizing methods are
provided for each day lighting technique.Pretty easy reading
for an architecture book. |
|
Garage/Workshop Sunspace
Gary
There is just nothing like natural lighting from large windows
-- it totally transforms the space. |
 This
is my very simple and inexpensive way to both light and heat
your dark cave of a garage or workshop. I have used this scheme
for more than a year now, and would never be without it again. |
| Himawari Daylight Collector
Daylight Collector
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 Device
to collect sunlight with a set of Fresnel lens, and direct the
collected light to any part of a building.Photos for many
example uses provided. |
| Heliostats for Lighting Indoor and
Outdoor Spaces
http://archrecord.construction.com
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 Some
not very detailed but interesting descriptions of heliostat
based lighting systems. |
| Sunlight Direct
http://www.sunlight-direct.com/technical.html
|
 Producer
of solar lights that use fiber optics for transmission of
light. The system uses a tracking solar dish to collect light
and fiber optics to distribute light in the building. Does not
look inexpensive. |
| Build A Simple Solar Powered
Outdoor Light, Jeffery Yago, Backwoods Magazine
www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/yago92.html
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 Backwoods
Magazine Article on building a solar PV powered "street light". |
| Heliostat Lighting Commercial
Products:
Heliotrack
http://www.heliotrack.com/
EGIS
http://www.egis-rotor.de/helio_us.html
Some ideas for home built heliostats from Duane at RedRok.com:
http://www.redrok.com/heliolighting.htm |
 A
heliostat is a mirror that reflects light onto a fixed target by
tracking the sun. The target can be a window on the north,
east, or west side of the house. The result is great solar
daylighting for normally dark rooms. If the mirror was large
enough, some useful heat could be provided as well. |
| The ultimate in
Heliostat Lighting Mirror gives Italian Village Its Place in
the Sun
http://www.gizmowatch.com
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6189371.stm#map |
 "ROME
(Reuters) - A village in the Italian Alps is finally basking in
winter sunlight thanks to a giant mirror installed on a mountain
top to reflect the sun's rays into the main square."
They use a heliostat to reflect sun into the town
square -- wow! |
| Elights Link List
http://www.elights.com/elights/lightinglinks.html
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Very extensive set of lighting links. |
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Efficient Lighting |
| Efficient Lighting
EERE on Types of Lighting
http://www.eere.energy.gov
This is our families estimated saving in energy and GHG's for
going to CFL's:
http://www.builditsolar.com
(A 224% return on investment, and 1 TON of CO2 per
year) |
 It
is a just plain no-brainer to use fluorescents and compact
fluorescents. They are far more efficient, last much much
longer, and will save you a ton of money and greenhouse gas
emissions.
Most utility companies offer some form of rebate program for
buying CFL's -- making it even more of a
no-brainer! |
| Lighting Facts
www.lightingfacts.com/
|
 This
is a site run by the DOE that is intended to help you compare
LED lights.The site promotes the use of a standard label that
provides key facts like light output, energy efficiency, and
light color.
Only LED lights are covered. |
| LED Holiday Lights
Almost all of the usual places that sell holiday lights now sell
the LED lights. Prices still vary a lot. We got ours a Costco
for about $10 per string.
|
 LED
holiday lights are safer (no heat), last a very long time, and
look great. They also use much less energy and significantly
reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The energy saving can be 90%
or more.A typical 100 light LED string uses less than 4
watts! They have an expected lifetime of 20+ years. With the
LED holiday light prices dropping, the payback period can be as
small as a season or two (considering both lower operating cost
and longer life). |
Energy-Efficient
Agricultural Lighting,
Scott Sanford,
UW Extension
http://learningstore.uwex.edu/pdf/A3784-14.pdf
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 Some
guidelines to lighting farms or homesteads or your big spread.
Includes recommended lighting levels and control.
Information and efficiency for quite a few lighting
technologies. |
