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For those interested in digging into this passive solar design concerns itself with solar gain optimization. Passive house is a standard that makes use of these
by class3shock 2y ago
For those interested in digging into this passive solar design concerns itself with solar gain optimization. Passive house is a standard that makes use of these concepts as well but goes alot further.
- hedora 2y agoIf you go this route, design for the climate twenty years from now, not for twenty years ago. (Speaking from experience—our house is an oven in the spring and fall because those seasons are 20F hotter than we assumed when designing the house.)
- happyopossum 2y ago> are 20F hotter than we assumed when designing the house Then you designed a house for a climate that never existed. There is nowhere on earth that is 20F warmer than it was 200 years ago, let alone 20.
- hedora 2y agoPeak temperatures have gone up that much for the microclimate our house is in. Put another way, air conditioning used to be unnecessary in Silicon Valley. Now we have > 100F days pretty much every year.
- amluto 2y agoI'm dubious. If you pick the right threshold, you will surely find that the frequency of days above that threshold is massively increased. But that doesn't imply that the temperature is up 20F. I certainly remember plenty of days in the mid-to-high-nineties in Silicon Valley 20 years ago.