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SharePassive solar heating and passive cooling--approaches known as natural conditioning--provide comfort throughout the year by reducing, or eliminating, the need for fossil fuel.
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Yet while heat from sunlight and ventilation from breezes is free for the taking, few modern architects or builders really understand 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 used for thousands of years.
Early societies such as the Native American Anasazis and the ancient Greeks perfected designs that effectively exploited these natural processes.
The Greeks considered anyone who didn't use passive solar to heat a home to be a barbarian! In the United States, passive solar architecture experienced a major resurgence of interest in the 1970s in response to crippling oil embargoes.
With grand enthusiasm but with scant knowledge (and sometimes little common sense), architects and builders created a wide variety of solar homes.
For more information about the title The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling, read the full description at Amazon.com, or see the following related books:
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