Category: General Passive Strategies
By NORBERT M. LECHNER As we discussed in the November/ December issue, low-hanging solar-responsive design strategies reduce a building’s energy consumption and typically cost less than the high-hanging solar-collecting technologies — or nothing at...
Text and photos by NORBERT M. LECHNER Update: 2017 – My apologies. The organization that runs Solar Today, the American Solar Energy Society, has closed the server that hosted Solar Today. Because of this,...
My apologies, it looks like the online magazine SolarToday no longer exists, so the images are missing. 🙁 This article first appeared in the May 2012 issue of Solar Today. Text and Photos by...
This article was first published in Solar Today in the Nov/Dec 2011 issue. By NORBERT M. LECHNER For most people, “solar energy” invokes the technologies of photovoltaics (PV) and, more generally, active solar systems...