Passive solar buildings aim to maintain interior thermal comfort throughout the sun’s daily and annual cycles whilst reducing the requirement for active heating and cooling systems.
This development in Western Australia is environmentally sensitive with such features as excellent passive solar design and shared solar power sources.
There are four primary passive solar energy configurations:
• direct solar gain (control the amount of direct solar radiation reaching the living space)
• indirect solar gain (control solar radiation reaching an area adjacent but not part of the living space)
• isolated solar gain (utilizing solar energy to passively move heat from or to the living space using a fluid, such as water or air by natural convection or forced convection)
• passive cooling
From the definition it comes up that “reducing the requirement for active heating and cooling systems” directly means less GHE.
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REFERENCES:
1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_solar_building_design
2) http://passivesolar.sustainablesources.com/
3) http://www.eere.energy.gov/de/passive_solar_design.html
4) http://www.midlandbrick.com.au/Article/Midland_Brick_Passive_solar_design.asp?site=boral
5) http://www.wbdg.org/resources/psheating.php
6) http://www.thenaturalhome.com/
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