Browsing by Subject "Architecture and solar radiation"
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Direct use of solar radiation for heating and cooling of residential buildings in hot-arid climates (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)The decade of the 1970's will be remembered as the era of energy crises--a time for the re-evaluation of technology, industry, and the way of life in modern society. For the first time man's dependence on energy from finite ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, )Passive solar energy systems are discussed in the context of global energy resources and energy flows. The generic forms of passive solar systems are characterized in terms of the comfort variables. This characterization ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)The double-shell system is a passive cooling concept that addresses the problem of excessive solar radiation heat gain in the hot-humid and the hot-arid regions of the world. The outer secondary shell provides shading for ...