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Author: Edward Mazria
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 448
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents technical information on passive energy design and application, using illustrations and text, and includes 27 design patterns for use in designing a passive energy system.
Author: James Kachadorian
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Published: 2006-07-31
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1603582401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevised and Expanded Edition - Includes CD-ROM with Custom Design Software For the past ten years The Passive Solar House has offered proven techniques for building homes that heat and cool themselves, using readily available materials and methods familiar to all building contractors and many do-it-yourself homeowners. True to this innovative, straightforward approach, the new edition of this best-selling guide includes CSOL passive solar design software, making it easier than ever to heat your home with the power of the sun. Since The Passive Solar House was first published, passive solar construction expert James Kachadorian has perfected user-friendly, Windows-compatible software to supplement the design process explained in the book by allowing homeowners/designers to enter the specifications of their design and see how changing a variable will affect its energy efficiency. This is the building book for a world of climbing energy costs. Applicable to diverse regions, climates, budgets, and styles of architecture, Kachadorian's techniques translate the essentials of timeless solar design into practical wisdom for today's solar builders. Profiles of successful passive solar design, construction, and retrofit projects from readers of the first edition provide inspiration to first-time homebuilders and renovators alike.
Author: David Bainbridge
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Published: 2011-08-18
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 160358420X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew buildings can be designed to be solar oriented, naturally heated and cooled, naturally lit and ventilated, and made with renewable, sustainable materials—no matter the location or climate. In this comprehensive overview of passive solar design, two of America’s solar pioneers give homeowners, architects, designers, and builders the keys to successfully harnessing the sun and maximizing climate resources for heating, cooling, ventilation, and daylighting. Bainbridge and Haggard draw upon examples from their own experiences, as well as those of others, of more than three decades to offer both overarching principles as well as the details and formulas needed to successfully design a more comfortable, healthy, and secure place in which to live, laugh, dance, and be comfortable. Even if the power goes off. Passive Solar Architecture also discusses “greener” and more-sustainable building materials and how to use them, and explores the historical roots of green design that have made possible buildings that produce more energy and other resources than they use.
Author: AK Athienitis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-18
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1134274149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPassive solar design techniques are becoming increasingly important in building design. This design reference book takes the building engineer or physicist step-by-step through the thermal analysis and design of passive solar buildings. In particular it emphasises two important topics: the maximum utilization of available solar energy and thermal storage, and the sizing of an appropriate auxiliary heating/cooling system in conjunction with good thermal control. Thermal Analysis and Design of Passive Solar Buildings is an important contribution towards the optimization of buildings as systems that act as natural filters between the indoor and outdoor environments, while maximizing the utilization of solar energy. As such it will be an essential source of information to engineers, architects, HVAC engineers and building physicists.
Author: Steven Winter Associates, Inc.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780471183082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPassive solar design refers to design strategies that minimize or eliminate the need to heat or cool a building mechanically. This sourcebook of details, drawings and case studies of passive solar buildings throughout the U.S. provides is a complete guide to passive solar design and construction.
Author: Jan F. Kreider
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780070354869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael E. Mackay
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0199652104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to the fundamental science and engineering of solar energy technologies. Gives a concise and detailed review of solar energy and its interaction with materials, and discusses photovoltaic devices and solar thermal technologies like the solar chimney, solar (power) tower, flat plate water heater, and electricity generation.
Author: Robert K. McMordie
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-20
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 8770226792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compilation of decades of knowledge spanning the author's career as a mechanical engineer specializing in heat transfer and thermodynamics in the solar and aerospace industries, this book is instantly practicable. Topics include definitions of energy terms, relationship of the sun and earth, sunlight on the earth, heat transfer, solar collectors, absorbed solar energy, solar domestic hot water systems, solar photovoltaic systems, solar space heating, solar power towers, Stirling engine solar power systems, passive solar energy, and greenhouse solar collector.
Author: Thomas Doerr
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781452856575
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Learn just what you need to know about passive solar house design for western states"--Page 4 of cover
Author: Peter Van Dresser
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780941270908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnyone who has been in a solar house, on a cold winter day has felt thearmth and comfort of its natural radiant heat. In 1958, solar pioneer Peteran Dresser built his first solar-heated house, one of the two oldest in thenited States. In this book van Dresser lays out in text and illustration therinciples an owner builder will need to know in siting, designing, buildingnd living in their solar house. Several sample house plans, ideas for solarot water heaters, and plans for solar crop dryers give the solar enthusiasthe basic information they will need to begin plans on their efficient home.his book shows that solar energy can be economically harnessed by simpleeans. Means that are within the grasp of the average homeowner and builder.
