Tag: power saving
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Window box heater
Last year I started fiddling with passive heating and whipped up one of these window box heaters. I found several flaws with my design and have since learned how to improve the efficiency greatly. For this test, I just leaned it on the sill of the kitchen window (the most northerly facing window) in the…
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Spring window temperatures.
I noticed something about the temperatures yesterday, so got out some thermometers and checked the situation. The temperature inside the house was 24 °C, outside was 34°C. The interesting thing was that the temperature of the window glass on the western side of the house was almost 45°C! That was a lot of heat pumping…
