passive solar heating

Passive solar heating and passive cooling--approaches known as natural conditioning--provide comfort throughout the year by reducing, or eliminating, the need for fossil fuel. 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.

• ancient greeks
• easier than ever
• egregious
• energy efficiency measures
• fossil fuel
• insulation
• modern architects
• natural processes
• oil embargoes
• passive cooling
• passive solar heating
• principles
• scant knowledge
• solar architecture
• solar designs
• solar enthusiasts
• solar house
• thermal mass
• windows and skylights