Other Mechanical Systems
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Keeping Ducts Indoors
Five ways to bring ducts inside a home’s conditioned space
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What Were They Thinking?
A selection of scary building stories and photos from the field
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An AC Sizing Benchmark for High-Performance Homes
Fighting air-conditioner rules of thumb with a new rule of thumb
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Direct-Gain Passive Solar Heating
A way to heat a house without combustion, electricity, or moving parts
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Ground-Source Heat Pumps, Part 3: Five Questions
For the last part of this Green Architects' Lounge podcast episode, Phil and Chris play "Five Questions" with two professional heat pump installers
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Ground-Source Heat Pumps, Part 2: Rules of Thumb
Deciding to use a ground-source heat pump is a big step; bigger still is dealing with all of the many variables that affect the design, scale, and cost of the system
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Biomass Boilers, Part 2: Taking Wood Hauling Out of the Users’ Hands
Pellet boilers offer the environmental benefit of gasification wood boilers, but add the convenience of automated fuel delivery and ignition
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Passive Hot Air from Everyday Materials
Wall-mounted solar collector provides fast payback -
Ground-Source Heat Pumps Have Low Operating Costs
Ground-source heat pumps are the most efficient heating and cooling systems with the lowest life-cycle cost. They are operating in all 50 states and the Canadian provinces, so there is no justification for the statement, "They don’t work here."