The Passive Solar Energy Book (Expanded Professional Edition)

By Edward Mazria

Book Overview

This is a wonderful resource for anyone who wants to implement passive solar power in a home, greenhouse, or other building project. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878572384
• ISBN13: 9780878572380
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Rodale Press
• Length: 687 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Passive Solar Compendium

This is the design authority for energy crisis 1.0 passive solar design. Very appropriate today.

Down to earth, practical methodology book

From a number of books I have been reading on passive energy topics, Mazria's small book is the most concrete, understandable and organized. I designed my home using the book and the forecasted energy compsumption matched the calculations!

Excellent reference!

When I designed our first house this book was invaluable. We are now designing our second home and looked to see if there is an update. Unfortunately it has not been revised but then little has changed with the sun and mass and the book will once again be a valued resource.

absolutely indispensable!

A seminal reference on the fundamentals of solar design. Easily used, yet thorough and quantitative. Should be required reading for everyone in the architecture & building design fields. Sunfall info given here is relevant to every structure ever designed -- and if you actually use it, the info *will* improve your design!!