| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 216 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-191). |
| Contents |
Goal of this guide -- Site location -- Thermal mass : heated by solar and by ground-coupled -- Attached greenhouse passive heating -- Domestic hot water -- Combined DHW and swimming pool heating -- Space heating -- Space cooling -- PV electric power -- Annual energy use -- Maintenance saves money -- Payback economics -- Thermal performance monitoring and control -- Solar energy future options. |
| Summary |
Covering the full life span of the project, from siting issues through specific design features to maintenance of the property and equipment, this is a comprehensive guide to designing, planning and building a solar house. The author uses his experience of living in a solar house to inform the reader of the technology and practices needed for the design, operation and maintenance of the solar home. Each of the technologies of the house, such as space heating and cooling, domestic hot water and electric power technologies, are critiqued from the point of view of. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Solar houses -- Design and construction.
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Solar houses -- Design and construction. |
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House construction -- Environmental aspects.
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House construction -- Environmental aspects. |
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House construction. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Galloway, Terry. Solar house. Amsterdam ; Burlington, MA : Architectural Press, 2004 0750658312 (OCoLC)53911822 |
| ISBN |
1417537299 (electronic book) |
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9781417537297 (electronic book) |
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