Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural

Abstract

SANTOS, Sebastião Amílcar de Figueiredo and NASCIMENTO FILHO, Jair. Coletores solares: materiais disponíveis no meio rural. In Procedings of the 4th Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural, 2002, Campinas (SP) [online]. 2002 [cited 19 April 2024]. Available from: <http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000022002000100038&lng=en&nrm=iso> .

On the countryside, the solar energy is a suitable and economical alternative to conventional energy sources. This work is concern with the use of solar energy on small farms with emphasis to non- conventional materials, i.e. cotton, corn cob, sugar-cane leaves, rice cobs and tropical grass. Those materials can be used as low cost thermal isolation. This work is a collection of ideas about those materials and their use into the solar energy systems.