The Solar Envelope: How to Heat and Cool Cities Without Fossil Fuels

For weekend reading: this is a long but fascinating post about passive solar that is a must read for anyone interested in alternative energy, environmentalism, energy economics, environmental economics and ecological economics. I suggest reading it in conjunction with the Tom Murphy post on economics and physics that just went up. The post looks at passive solar historically and how it can not only be adapted today, but also scaled up.

Read it at The Oil Drum
The Solar Envelope: How to Heat and Cool Cities Without Fossil Fuels
Posted by Rembrandt