Re:95-Degree Days: How Extreme Heat Could Spread Across the ...
by 0xcde4c3db on Monday June 26, 2017 @09:29PM
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Almost all examples I've seen of passive solar design assume that a new building is being built, and often use unconventional techniques and materials. I've seen a smattering of retrofit examples, but get the impression that they're pretty expensive relative to the results. Are there proven, economical approaches for existing buildings, especially those for which renovations are subject to building codes?
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Re:95-Degree Days: How Extreme Heat Could Spread Across the ...
by Mz on Monday June 26, 2017 @09:35PM
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I don't have firsthand experience, but I know some techniques can be retrofit. Low hanging fruit includes landscaping to provide shade in summer and a wind break in winter. Here are a couple of articles found with a quick google that look pretty solid at first glance:
http://www.motherearthnews.com/green-homes/passive-solar-hom...
https://www.homepower.com/articles/home-efficiency/design-co...
Re:95-Degree Days: How Extreme Heat Could Spread Across the ...
by dsfyu404ed on Monday June 26, 2017 @11:31PM
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Wind breaks suck for shoveling snow. They become perpetual snow drifts.
Re:95-Degree Days: How Extreme Heat Could Spread Across the ...
by posguy on Monday June 26, 2017 @11:37PM
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Use it where it makes sense, this isn't hard to plan out and think ahead. For example, you could landscape this way all over Seattle or Portland, and in most of Hood River, OR as the wind is only consistently strong in small areas in the winter.
Also, no reason you can't plant or prune existing trees/shrubbery such that they don't become a blocker for snow, we do it all the time out in Eastern Oregon. A little forethought goes a long way.