The Solar House: Passive Solar Heating and .

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Passive solar heating and passive cooling--approaches known as natural cond itioning--provide comfort throughout the year by reducing, or eliminating, the need for fossil fuel. Yet while heat from sunlight and ventilation from breezes is free for the taking, few modern architects or builders really u nderstand the principles involved. Now Dan Chiras, author of the popular book The Natural House, brings those principles up to date for a new generation of solar enthusiasts. The techniques required to heat and cool a building passively have been use d for thousands of years. Early societies such as the Native American Anasa zis and the ancient Greeks perfected designs that effectively exploited the se natural processes. The Greeks considered anyone who didn't use passive s olar to heat a home to be a barbarian! In the United States, passive solar architecture experienced a major resurg ence of interest in the 1970s in response to crippling oil embargoes. With grand enthusiasm but with scant knowledge (and sometimes little common sens e), architects and builders created a wide variety of solar homes. Some wor ked pretty well, but looked more like laboratories than houses. Others perf ormed poorly, overheating in the summer because of excessive or misplaced w indows and skylights, and growing chilly in the colder months because of in sufficient thermal mass and insulation and poor siting. In The Solar House, Dan Chiras sets the record straight on the vast potential for passive heating and.

Product Info

ISBN: 1931498121

ISBN-13: 9781931498128

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Com

Year: 2002

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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