Double Shell Solar House - Softcover

Booth, Don

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0960442219 ISBN 13: 9780960442218

Publisher: Community Builders, 1980

*Community Builders’ Experience with the Buffering Air Envelope, *Three Houses by Frank Huber, *Edited Discussions from Three Envelope Technical Conferences. From Introduction: “I heard Johannes Gunnarshaug describe a Norwegian system which used a ‘building within a building’ to form an airspace between the inner and outer shells so that the inner building could stand in an artificially tempered climate. He reasoned that even the faint sunshine of Norwegian winters could produce enough heat to make a buffering air envelope warmer than the outdoor air, and that this warmer climate around the occupied inner building would importantly reduce the heating load on the inner space. We had built several sun-heated homes, using direct gain, water wall, and internal convective loop systems, and knew there are many good and simple ways to use sunshine effectively...I think a large part of the present controversy about the air-envelope system is due to the extravagant and misleading desc

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