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Wouldn't double-glazing just make the greenhouse problem worse?
by adrianratnapala 10y ago
Wouldn't double-glazing just make the greenhouse problem worse?
- robin_reala 10y agoNot necessarily - you can get low emissivity windows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_emissivity#Low-emissivity_windows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_emissivity#Low-emissivity_...
- hx87 10y agoIt wouldn't, since each layer of glazing reduces the amount of solar energy that arrives inside the window, and energy loss from buildings is an overwhelmingly convective and conductive phenomenon.