Your home's solar potential

Book · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1976

OSTI ID:7084847

Spetgang, I; Wells, M

This survey book offers a professional method of assessing your property's solar potential. Chapter I reviews the suitability of solar energy and the world energy crisis. Chapter II poses the ten most frequently asked questions about free solar energy and provides the answers. Chapter III surveys the fringe benefits about solar energy. Chapter IV lists the seven major factors concerning the evaluation of the home's solar potential, its existing heating system; its heat loss; its orientation and available sunlight; its roof slope; its exposure to sunlight; its indoor installation restrictions; and its outdoor installation restrictions. The following chapter will tell you why each of these factors is so important; how it affects your home's solar potential. Tally sheets are provided on which to score each solar potential factor. The book also includes lists of information sources, books, authors, government publications, consultants, design engineers, architects, manufacturers, installers, etc. (MCW)

• OSTI ID: 7084847
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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