Passive Cooling Techniques

What is passive cooling and what can you do to make it work for you?

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By reducing a home’s internal and external heat gains, with clever passive cooling techniques, houses can be cooled without using a mechanical air conditioner.

What Is Passive Cooling?

Passive cooling is a key element of a larger strategy known as natural conditioning — heating, cooling, ventilating and lighting a building naturally, that is, without mechanical or electronic devices and without outside energy.

Like passive solar heating, passive cooling may require some backup from time to time. The goal, however, is to reduce our reliance on mechanical cooling and ventilation systems and the outside energy needed to run them. In the process, we slash our energy bills, increase our energy independence and dramatically reduce our impact on the environment, the life-support system of the planet and, lest we forget, the source of all our wealth.

How Does It Work?

  • Updated on Jun 29, 2022
  • Originally Published on Apr 19, 2016
Tagged with: cooling, cooling your home, dan chiras, heat gain, natural conditioning, natural cooling, passive cooling
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