Yep.Yep. All what DavidB says in spades works for winter heat moderation as well as summer cooling.
10,000 pounds of combined ceramic floor tiles and concerte backer board in the kitchen/dining room floors stores a lot of heat or cool. Add in ~4,000 pound of the same in the corner wood stove iron, and it’s walls/floor ceramic tiles and concrate backer boards does the same. 6 hours winter nights caary over heat. 12 hours mid-summer carry over cooling. 2 story old farm house shape and I/we chimney up and out solar gain heat nicely for a never above 75F interior heating up.
Of couse that does require an open windows nighly chill down inside to at least 60F.
And there is the rub for most “modern” ljust this last 60 years new expectations. That your interior spaces will all be a finite regulated 72F, with dehimidification.
Randy L a now becoming classic engineering mistake is calculating oversizing the HVAC system when the roof solar gain areas are covered with PV solar or Green’Grow roofs.
These both convert the roof’s solar gain heating by converting this solar engy into instead other energy than just simple heat. Like do-all electricty!
Lived through the Mt Saint Helens electrical storms. Annual multiple near-hit lightning storms kills at least a tree or two a year within 300 feet of us. Living in the prime, easy, PNW area for the North Koreans to EPM try to shut down cheap from a fishing trawler rocket lofted blast.
Just layer your efforts a bit.
PV: have an older RV inverter stored back to back up the newer MMPT types.
Screw the newer high-tech battery banks. A fork lift lead acid battry-pac modual can be had new, or used. Learn to care for it and get 10+ years usable life. Learn lead-acids; and then if ever come an EMP event and you will be surrouned by out of fueled vehicles each with a lead acid battery most usable for 5 years.
Practical - yeas use some LED lighting. ALSO buy, circuts load desig then proof/use some incandesents too.
Ha! Even you nned a bith of seasonal heat right at the time you need the most lighting.
Don’t let EMP fears spoil your efforts. Just get smart.
Again easy ways to learn all of this first hand. A used cheap self contained motoer home has most all of these systems already onboard. Sized just right for a stand alone cabin. Including an AC system. Gutting out, restoring fuctions and repairing the system would teach you one of the most important “day-after” skills. How to “Use it up. Make do. Or do without”
Valuable guy will be the one who can repurpose out-of-fuels tech’s to be basic needs, useable.
Barterable skill-trade.
That backing up learning can start now.
Pixilated ultra-watts saving hobbiest’s wastes irreplacable time scratching thier inventive make-it-better itches.
That time could have been be better spent out planting, nurturing then work-sweat harverting more trees fuel woods. Personally Work toughend then, surpises, become mere inconvneces challenges. Fun actually.
Regards
Steve Unruh
