Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X That’s one of the first scientific lessons students learn. It’s also the basis for Souderton Area ...

Built as part of the sustainable features of a new Australian building, the specially-designed solar chimney radically boosts safe evacuation time in a fire - from 2 minutes to over 14 minutes. A must ...

Solar chimneys and natural ventilation systems represent a sustainable approach to enhancing indoor air quality while reducing energy consumption. By harnessing solar radiation, these passive devices ...

Inside a new conceptual building, there’s room for the entire population of a city the size of Cleveland–and the building can generate power for all of them. The design is a solar chimney, an enormous ...

Solar chimneys are an under-appreciated and underdeveloped passive solar heating and cooling technology. A collaborative project between RMIT University and the Australian town of Kingston, Victoria, ...

HOHHOT - A water-tower-like chimney is eye catching in the desolate desert, where under the chimney is a glass-made house sitting above the ground. This is a solar chimney plant system in Jinshawan, ...

Chile's Atacama Desert is as eerily beautiful as it is barren, hot, and dry. Yet this seemingly inhospitable patch of Earth might be the perfect host for a different kind of solar energy, one that has ...

Plans for a 1km (3,280ft) inflatable solar chimney have been outlined by a leading balloon specialist. Per Lindstrand, who crossed the Pacific in a balloon with Sir Richard Branson in 1991, said the ...

A must-have in green building design, solar chimneys can slash energy costs up to 50%. Now research reveals they could also help save lives in a building fire. In a world-first, researchers designed a ...