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Skipweasel

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More attention to both desirable and undesirable solar gain in
house design would probably bear more fruit than many of the
pointless energy saving schemes which currently have the public
attention.

Hard to do when people still want mock-Georgian houses.

A nice glass fronted[1] house with a good thick slab of something heavy
behind it, equipped with blinds and vents should be able to do both
heating and cooling if used properly. And there may be the rub - some
occupiers will hate it simply because they don't understand how to use
it or have fuddled the design up by building cupboards over the vents.

However popular it is, the whiners will generally get the press and what
could be a super design with real benefits in reducing energy costs will
become unfashionable again (if it ever gets started) because of
ignorance and the media's hunger for sensational stories.

[1] For front, read "south elevation".

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Skipweasel.
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