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"good southern exposure".

In which case you can fit normal windows and achieve the same or better.




No, windows fail, as can be seen by reviewing the linked pages.

Windows are not the same:

- Windows do not passively aid circulation of warmed air, which the panels are particularly designed to do.

- Windows also do not passively reduce or eliminate overnight-losses of energy (heat) on a cold night (consider negative-centigrade temperature or less), which the linked-to design does do, by passively preventing circulation of air that would cool the building overnight

The design linked-to is specifically designed to passively deal with the prevention of the transfer of heat outside on a cold night, among other things, including limited cost, simple construction, and rapid payback over the life of the building in a cold winter environment. Windows fail as a passive solar source.

Diurnal intervention required for windows.




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