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What is new are building materials, methods, and solar positioning considerations the south side of the home must be oriented to within 30 degrees of due south. Although simple in concept, it takes experience to combine these elements into a dream home design that suits your site and keeps you safe, comfortable, and healthy. These homes require much less fossil fuel energy to heat. Passive solar design handbook volume two of two volumes.
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The passive solar design and construction handbook. Passive solar simplified easily design a truly green home for colorado and the west. A passive solar system does not involve mechanical devices or the use of conventional energy sources beyond that needed to regulate dampers and other controls, if any. Learn how to select a costeffective, energyefficient, and environmentally friendly backup heating system. Rather than being a guide to passive solar home design, it is instead really a comprehensive guide to energy efficient home design, with passive solar techniques being one of the topics covered. Free plans for an affordable zeroenergy passive solar home.
Passive house passivhaus passive house institute us, inc. For a closer look at the passive solar design method and for the answers to many other questions you may have about it, solar age magazine published a series of articles beginning in may 1983. The patent had expired when the author released this book. A welldesigned passive solar home first reduces heating and cooling loads through energyefficiency strategies and then meets those reduced loads in whole or part with solar energy. Because a passive house building is airtight, it requires balanced and controlled ventilation with highquality heat exchange to provide fresh air at all times. In fact, passivesolar design features such as a greenhousesunroomsolarium can greatly enhance the livability, daylight, views, and value of a home, at a low cost per unit of space. Centre for sustainable design, university of queensland. Passive solar design building the energyefficient home. Using solar design to heat and cool your home real goods independent living book. Passive solar floor plans are designed with large windows for optimal positioning in relationship to the sun to increase the energy efficiency of the home and reduce the usage of natural resources such as fossil heating fuel. We are committed to making highperformance passive building the mainstream market standard.
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