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2. Trombe wall - Wikipedia

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   Trombe wall. A Trombe wall is a massive equator-facing wall that is painted a dark color in order to absorb thermal energy from incident sunlight and covered with a glass on the outside with an insulating air-gap between the wall and the glaze. A Trombe wall is a passive solar building design strategy that adopts the concept of indirect-gain ...

3. Passive cooling - Wikipedia

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   A traditional Iranian solar cooling design using a wind tower. Passive cooling is a building design approach that focuses on heat gain control and heat dissipation in a building in order to improve the indoor thermal comfort with low or no energy consumption. [ 1][ 2] This approach works either by preventing heat from entering the interior ...

4. Passive solar building design - Wikipedia

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   In passive solar building design, windows, walls, and floors are made to collect, store, reflect, and distribute solar energy, in the form of heat in the winter and reject solar heat in the summer. This is called passive solar design because, unlike active solar heating systems, it does not involve the use of mechanical and electrical devices.

5. Refrigerator - Wikipedia

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   A refrigerator, commonly fridge, is a commercial and home appliance consisting of a thermally insulated compartment and a heat pump (mechanical, electronic or chemical) that transfers heat from its inside to its external environment so that its inside is cooled to a temperature below the room temperature. [ 1]

6. Carolina home inspector points out major problems in new ...

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   In another video, the inspector points out that there are three things you should consider as a potential buyer before ever even submitting an offer or paying for an inspection: gutters, cracks in ...

7. New research reveals self-care savvy cities (and what we can ...

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   Design your bedroom to promote restorative sleep. Research suggests that optimizing your sleep environment can enhance sleep quality. Use blackout curtains to block out light, maintain a ...