Solar Heated Buildings of North America: 120 Outstanding Examples

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The phenomenal growth of solar heating is thrilling-but bewildering. What new kinds of solar heating systems are being built? How are they constructed? How well do they work? What do they cost? What designs are most appropriate to the cold Northeast? The sunny Southwest? Canada? What are the trends in active systems, passive systems, and hybrid systems? How are costs being reduced? William A. Shurcliff, veterán researcher and writer on solar heating, answers these questions. He has studied more than 500 solar heated buildings, selected the most interesting ones, and written SOLAR HEATED BUILDINGS OF NORTH AMERICA: 120 OUTSTANDING EXAMPLES. The buildings are respresentative of all parts of the United States and Canada. They embody the best thinking of many top inventors, designers, architects, and builders. The descriptions are detailed and concise. They are accompanied by perspective sketches and photographs. Great effort has been made to obtain the most up-to-date information. This... Tovább

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The phenomenal growth of solar heating is thrilling-but bewildering. What new kinds of solar heating systems are being built? How are they constructed? How well do they work? What do they cost? What designs are most appropriate to the cold Northeast? The sunny Southwest? Canada? What are the trends in active systems, passive systems, and hybrid systems? How are costs being reduced? William A. Shurcliff, veterán researcher and writer on solar heating, answers these questions. He has studied more than 500 solar heated buildings, selected the most interesting ones, and written SOLAR HEATED BUILDINGS OF NORTH AMERICA: 120 OUTSTANDING EXAMPLES. The buildings are respresentative of all parts of the United States and Canada. They embody the best thinking of many top inventors, designers, architects, and builders. The descriptions are detailed and concise. They are accompanied by perspective sketches and photographs. Great effort has been made to obtain the most up-to-date information. This book is of unique value to professionals and laymen who wish to learn about the outstanding solar-heating-system designs of today. The fact-filled case histories represent a wide variety of installations: • houses, office buildings, schools, churches, apartments, and greenhouses • one-story and multi-story buildings • horizontal and steeply sloped roofs • air-type, water-type, and passive systems • elaborate, mechanized systems and simple manually operated systems • systems build by prestigous firms and systems built by hand , a veterán research worker and author in optics and radiation, is currently an Honorary Research Associate in the Physics Department at Harvard University. A self-employed solar-heating- system inventor and chronicler, as well, he has a dozen patents to his credit. In 1967, he founded the Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom, and later wrote the SST and Sonic Boom Handbook. He is alsó the author of the Informál Directory of the Organizations and People Involved in the Solar Heating of Buildings, now in its third edition. He is a member of the American and New England sections of the International Solar Energy Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. THE SOLAR HOME BOOK by Bruce Anderson with Michael Riordan 304 Pages $8.50 The first solar book written in straightforward language, THE SOLAR HOME BOOK covers not only the fundamentals but alsó the design, technology and history of solar heating and cooling. The text is amply illustrated with a wealth of photographs, drawings and diagrams including descriptions of more than 40 solar homes. Must reading for anyone considering building a house today-solar heated or otherwise . . . NEW YORK TIMES The best book on solar energy /Ve seen to date . . . POPULAR SCIENCE Vissza