The Passive Solar House: Using Solar Design to Heat and Cool Your Home

Name: The Passive Solar House: Using Solar Design to Heat and Cool Your Home
Brand: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
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By James Kachadorian

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This book offers a technique for building homes that heat and cool themselves in a wide range of different climates, using ordinary building materials available anywhere and with methods familiar to all building contractors and many do-it-yourselfers. A formerly patented design for author James Kachadorian's Solar Slab heat exchanger is now available for the use of anyone motivated by the desire to build a house that needs a backup furnace or air conditioner rarely if ever. This is a building book for the next century. Applicable to a diversity of regions, climates, budgets, and styles of architecture, Kachadorian's techniques translate the essentials of timeless solar design (siting a home in harmony with nature, using windows as solar collectors, achieving year-round comfort by balancing good insulation with healthy supplies of fresh air) into practical wisdom for today's new generation of solar builders.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 220
Release Date:: 2002-08-05
Publication Date:: 2002-08-05
Publisher:: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0930031970
ISBN13:: 9780930031978
Weight:: 644 g

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