Passive Solar
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Revisiting the Passive Solar Debate
Is it possible to incorporate passive solar design principles when construction plans are underway?
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Urban Rustic: Evaluating the Success of Passive-Solar-Design Strategies
Tracking the sun around all four sides of our house, inside and out, has proven the value of passive solar design in a cold climate
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Newspapers Trumpeted ‘Solar Homes’ in the 1940s
After a major glass manufacturer promoted passive solar homes in the late 1940s, interest in the topic all but disappeared for thirty years
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A Quantitative Look at Solar Heat Gain
A deep dive into passive solar heating principles
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Making an Old Tract House Sunnier and More Efficient
In 1983, the Heron was one of five cookie-cutter models offered in Bay Country, a tract housing development in a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland. Perhaps a little ahead of its…
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Reassessing Passive Solar Design Principles
Which design principles from the 1970s are worth retaining, and which should be discarded?
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Reinventing a Passive Solar Design
A New Mexican builder updates the work of his father with a new and improved project nearly 40 years after the original
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Overheating from South Windows
During hot sunny weather, our second floor sometimes overheats
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Every House Needs Roof Overhangs
Adequate roof overhangs help shade windows in hot weather and reduce the amount of rain that hits your siding, windows, and doors
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Earthship Hype and Earthship Reality
Should you build your house out of old tires, rammed earth, and empty cans?
