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Re:Cooling a house without air conditioning by sh87 on Friday August 23, 2019 @01:18PM (#20779946)
Are there any resources where I can educate myself on this? I bought an apartment in a 28 storey building recently and I was struck with the lack of interest and thought on my questions on natural ventilation and natural lighting. I'm a long way from designing a house but I'd definitely want to educate myself on topics like how do you guess the air flow direction, what direction is the sunlight going to be during what months, what about rain fall, what are good insulators you can use, etc. you get what I'm getting at.
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Re:Cooling a house without air conditioning by dublinben on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:22PM (#20780770)
You can read more about the design and construction techniques used in zero-energy buildings.[0] They consider natural ventilation, sunlight, insulation, etc. in ways that conventional construction ignores.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-energy_building

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Re:Cooling a house without air conditioning by Vrondi on Friday August 23, 2019 @01:56PM (#20780427)
Well, the easiest way to see what the air flow direction is at any time in any space, is to light a stick of incense, and then watch which way the smoke goes if you hold it quite still.
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