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Passive Solar Energy: The Homeowner's Guide to Natural Heating and Cooling

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This book is thin, but it illustrates it's ideas well, and presents most of the critical ideas you will find in thicker passive solar books. It is extremely easy to understand the concepts, and very easy to follow. You could read it in a single night and have a good grasp on passive solar and methods you could employ. It does not go into building code, like how much of a span you could make with a 6x6 beam for a glass wall, and is more of a book to get you thinking about possibilities. If you are going to build a greenhouse this would be a great thing to get you brainstorming on how to make it optimal. It does not go deep into building materials and what materials are the most reflective, the most absorbent, etc, for that you will need to get a text-book like passive solar book. If you are going to build a solarium, or thermal storage wall, or glass porch, or skylights, or want to design your own green home, this book would be a great starting point.