[Greenbuilding] Comfort and shutters

nick pine nick at early.com
Fri Nov 19 12:58:10 CST 2010


>>... it looks like we only have to raise the unshuttered room air temp
from 70 to 70.043 F to make the rooms equally comfortable, unless you
are sitting right next to a window.

>>Passiv Haus fascists seem to overemphasize the effect of mean radiant
temps on comfort.
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>Nick's calcs assume that the uniformly clad and no doubt spherical human 
>specimen is in the exact center of the room, losing heat uniformly over his 
>or her body to a single small window--

You might just say "I don't understand the calculatiion."

Nick 





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