Trombe wall

From outside to inside, a Trombe wall consists of a layer or more of glass, a narrow air space, and a masonry wall coated with a dark, heat-absorbing material. Energy […]

Passive cooling systems are a type of building design that uses natural processes to cool a building without the use of mechanical systems.

Named after engineer Felix Trombe, the system combines glass and a dark, heat-absorbing material to conduct heat slowly into the house

A Trombe wall is used to reduce the use of a building's heating and cooling systems through passive solar design.

If you have big windows to the south, you already know you are saving a lot on heating costs on sunny winter days, IMO. With this simple DIY system you can...

Regular readers will know that we tend to favour simple, non-mechanical methods of green design, like passive solar heating instead of, say, thermal solar collectors with evacuated tubes and pumps. One

Solarium with Trombe wall as used in High Mountain regions (Diagram from Nayak and Prajapati, 2006)

So we’re into another week about heat emissions in bodies and buildings and the passive air techniques that can be used to control those functions.The Addington reading addresses the more historica…

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