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US 2011/0253126 A1Published application
Net Zero Energy Building System
OwnerHuiming Yin, C. Julian Cheninventors
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Abstract
Net zero energy building systems are disclosed. In some embodiments, the systems include the following: roofing panels positioned on a roof of a building, the roofing panels being made of an array of horizontal elliptic glass vacuum tube solar collectors attached upon a reinforced light weight concrete panel; electricity generators; an insulated fluid storage tank; and a fluid circulation sub-system joined with the panels, generators, and tank.
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A net zero energy building system, said system comprising:
- roofing panels positioned on a roof of a building, said roofing panels being made of an array of horizontal elliptic glass vacuum tube solar collectors attached upon a reinforced light weight concrete panel;
- electricity generators;
- an insulated fluid storage tank;
- and
- a fluid circulation sub-system joined with said panels, generators, and tank.
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A net zero energy building system, said system comprising:
- roofing panels positioned on a roof of a building, said roofing panels including an array of horizontal elliptic glass vacuum tube solar collectors attached upon a reinforced light weight concrete panel, said tube solar collectors including a top half that is transparent and a bottom half that is glazed with reflective paint and embedded into the concrete panel;
- electricity generators;
- an insulated fluid storage tank;
- and
- a fluid circulation sub-system joined with said panels, generators, and tank.
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A net zero energy building system, said system comprising:
- roofing panels positioned on a roof of a building, said roofing panels being made of an array of horizontal elliptic glass vacuum tube solar collectors attached upon a reinforced light weight concrete panel;
- electricity generators;
- an insulated fluid storage tank;
- and
- a fluid circulation sub-system joined with said panels, generators, and tank, wherein the fluid circulation sub-system includes a computer and a computer program for controlling the flow rate to get a desired temperature of a working fluid.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.