Does anyone do passive solar heating? Do you have a greenhouse attached to your house or lots of thermal mass / tile floor / water? How did you learn how to build it? What are your favourite resources?

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Book Review: "The Solar House - Passive Heating and Cooling" by Dan Chiras

Chiras covers lots of detail on passive design, solar heating, and thermal mass. He covers different techniques for capturing and storing sunlight as free heat.

He also calls out the idea of energy use in house construction decades before it was common - "you should also account for how much energy it takes to *construct* and *move* these materials".

But I wish the book had more details on how to do it. How do I calculate? Where and how do I build? I would love more details.

I learned a lot, but I still don't know anything

https://brownfoxff.substack.com/p/book-review-the-solar-house-passive

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