Passive solar and natural cooling: Overview
Buildings that heat, cool and light themselves
What this tile covers Buildings designed to gather or shed heat and light without machines.Key facts
| Output | Heat, cooling, light |
Included from the reference tables
- Sun-facing glazing, Trombe walls, sunrooms, daylighting
- Natural ventilation and windcatchers
- Earth tubes and earth-sheltered buildings
- Evaporative and radiative cooling
- Traditional cooling: ice houses, stored snow, thermal mass
- Seawater air conditioning
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