passive solar sanity check [RE-wrenches]

[Kurt Albershardt]

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--On Tuesday, May 17, 2005 10:11 AM -0700 Bill Brooks <bill at brooksolar.com> wrote:
>
>
> You should check out the fact sheets at North Carolina Solar Center (my old
> stomping grounds) www.ncsc.ncsu.edu. From their passive solar design
> checklist:
>
> --Size south-facing windows and thermal mass
> appropriately.
> --Suntempered homes with no internal solar thermal
> mass should have south facing windows with a glass
> area of no more than 7 percent of the floor area .
> --Direct gain systems can have south-facing window
> glass area which is 7-12 percent of the floor
> area. Every 1 square foot of south-facing glass over
> the 7 percent suntempering allowance must be accompanied
> by 5-6 square feet of 4-inch-thick masonry.


Thanks--that's just the sort of info she's needing.

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