Passive design: Harnessing sun’s power saves money
In an article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, retired builder Bob Stockdale says:
[it's] “a crime” that today’s house designs don’t incorporate passive-solar concepts as standard practice.
It’s wasteful, too, according to Clay Sterling, education director at Midwest Renewable Energy Association in Custer.
“A home that’s oriented to the south-southwest, with minimal windows on the northwest and east will consume 30% less energy than its neighbor next door,” Sterling said. “There are people who do that and don’t even know it. Just go down a street with run-of-the-mill ranch houses – big bay in front, small window to the backyard – on both sides. You’ll find the energy bills of the houses facing south are much lower.”
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