Is passive solar dead? @atwilson looks at passive solar design in an age of superinsulation.

The End of the Line for Passive Solar? - - BuildingGreen.com

Is passive solar dead? @atwilson looks at passive solar design in an age of superinsulation.

For the better part of three years I worked for NMSEA, first running the Workshop Program (in which we traveled around the state leading construction workshops), then getting more involved in research and writing. My first real publication was the Thermal Storage Wall Design Manual , published in 1979. At national conferences I became inspired by the burgeoning interest in passive solar design, and at one of those conferences I met John Hayes, a professor at Marlboro College and chair of the Passive Division of the American Solar Energy Society , who would convince me to move to Vermont and become executive director of the New England Solar Energy Association (now the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association

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