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This book, Designing & Building a Solar House, by Donald Watson, published by Storey Communications, Inc., of Pownal, Vermont in 1977, revised edition 1985, is a very good book about active and passive solar building design. If you are looking for it, its ISBN 0-88266-401-8.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 - Solar Heating Now - page 1
- Early American Indian and Colonial buildings based on solar and other climatic elements. Early solar houses.
Chapter 2 - How Solar Heating Works - page 10
How solar heating works. The four objectives of solar house design: to collect, store, distribute and retain the sun's heat.
Chapter 3 - Passive Systems - page 20
Passive systems. Solar-oriented windows, greenhouses, and skylights. Collector/storage building elements: masonry walls. Drumwall, Skytherm roof pond, whole house thermosiphon air systems, summary.
Chapter 4 - Active Systems: The Three Basic Parts - page 50
Active systems. The three basic parts: collector, storage and distribution. Flat-plate collectors. Higher-performance collectors: heat trap, evacuated and focussing designs. Storage: water, rock and phase-change materials. Distribution systems.
Chapter 5 - Active Systems: How the Parts Work Together - page 85
Early experimental house prototypes. House heat recovery: the Barber residence. Air systems: the Lof (figure out accent) residence. Water-trickling design: the Thomason solar house. LIquid systems: the MIT Solar House IV. Domestic water heating and auxiliary space heating. Solar-assisted heat pumps. Solar powered air-conditioning. Solar Photovoltaic cells for electricity conversion: University of Delaware Solar One House.
Chapter 6 - Ecodesign: Designing a Building for Energy Conservation - page 120
Ecodesign: Principles of building for energy conservation. Designs for different U.S. climates. For northern climates: fireplace design, internal zoning, underground massing, and high insulation standards. Collector area and house design.
Chapter 7 - Solar House Design in Northern Climates - page 144
Economic comparison of six solar heating alternatives in northern climates. A combination of passive and active systems shown to be the best choice for short-term payback. The effect of fuel cost rise on solar system selection.
Chapter 8 - Building a Solar House - page 158
Building a solar house: site planning, design and construction checklists. Selecting solar equipment based on durability, performance and cost. Four ways to reduce costs: pre-engineered plans, one-contract installation, site-fabricated systems, and self-help construction.
Acknowledgments - page 204
Appendix I - Information Sources - page 215
Appendix II - Publications - page 217
Appendix III - Solar Designers, Architects, and Engineers - page 219
Appendix IV - Solar Products and Plans Sources - page 222
Appendix V - Solar Projects - page 227
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