Our entire planet can be viewed as one giant passive-solar system.
All the elements in this giant system are integral, interconnected parts of whole.
What we humans build on earth should also be part of this connection.
Akio Okumura, inventor of the OM Solar system, has observed that our planet can be viewed as a giant passive-solar system whose working elements include the earth's atmosphere, its oceans, and the myriad different forms of life existing on it.
The sphere that is the earth turns ceaselessly in space, luminous in the blackness. This brilliance is a reflection of the sun. The sun warms the earth's atmosphere as well as its oceans and landmasses, which maintain an average global temperature of about 59Fº (15Cº). Although extreme heat and cold do exist, temperatures on earth are mostly within a range that can accommodate human life.
Ocean water warmed by the sun evaporates into the air, the vapor rising into the atmosphere to be transformed into clouds. Clouds eventually turn into rain, and rainwater falls on the earth's surface, also penetrating underground, to feed aquifers and oceanbound rivers and all forms of life.
This cycle is carried out by nature in a "passive" way reliant on the sun. Human activities are increasingly interfering with the process, and nature sometimes — increasingly too, perhaps — takes its revenge. The built environment is an additional element imposed on this process. As such, it should strive to respect the integrity of nature's great "linked" system by working with the system rather than against it.
Pivotal to the OM Solar concept is a commitment to environmental sustainability. Through the use of OM Solar technologies for heating, cooling, and ventilating homes and for recycling and purifying water, seeds will be planted that will nurture resource conservation locally and worldwide.
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