Trombe wall, the Glossary
A Trombe wall is a massive equator-facing wall that is painted a dark color in order to absorb thermal energy from incident sunlight and covered with a glass on the outside with an insulating air-gap between the wall and the glaze.[1]
Table of Contents
9 relations: Barra system, Edward S. Morse, Efficient energy use, Félix Trombe, Fossil fuel, Greenhouse effect, Heat capacity, List of pioneering solar buildings, Passive solar building design.
- Solar architecture
- Solar design
Barra system
The Barra system is a passive solar building technology developed by Horazio Barra in Italy. Trombe wall and Barra system are solar architecture, solar design and Sustainable building.
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Edward S. Morse
Edward Sylvester Morse (June 18, 1838 – December 20, 1925) was an American zoologist, archaeologist, and orientalist.
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Efficient energy use
Efficient energy use, or energy efficiency, is the process of reducing the amount of energy required to provide products and services.
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Félix Trombe
Felix Trombe (1906–1985) was a French engineer and speleologist.
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Fossil fuel
A fossil fuel is a carbon compound- or hydrocarbon-containing material such as coal, oil, and natural gas, formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the remains of prehistoric organisms (animals, plants and planktons), a process that occurs within geological formations.
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Greenhouse effect
The greenhouse effect occurs when greenhouse gases in a planet's atmosphere insulate the planet from losing heat to space, raising its surface temperature.
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Heat capacity
Heat capacity or thermal capacity is a physical property of matter, defined as the amount of heat to be supplied to an object to produce a unit change in its temperature.
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List of pioneering solar buildings
The following buildings are of significance in pioneering the use of solar powered building design. Trombe wall and List of pioneering solar buildings are building engineering and solar design.
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Passive solar building design
In passive solar building design, windows, walls, and floors are made to collect, store, reflect, and distribute solar energy, in the form of heat in the winter and reject solar heat in the summer. Trombe wall and passive solar building design are solar architecture and solar design.
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See also
Solar architecture
- Alberta Solar Decathlon Project
- Barra system
- Central solar heating
- Concentrated solar power
- Daylight redirecting film
- Daylighting (architecture)
- Double-skin facade
- Earthship
- Heliotrope (building)
- Helsinki Central Library Oodi
- IDA Indoor Climate and Energy
- Laylight
- Light tube
- Lightwell
- Loyola Residence Tower
- Passive solar building design
- Pavement light
- Pennyland project
- Prism lighting
- Reflective surfaces (climate engineering)
- Remote Skylights
- Roof lantern
- Seasonal thermal energy storage
- Skylight
- Solar 1
- Solar Ark
- Solar Decathlon
- Solar Settlement at Schlierberg
- Solar air conditioning
- Solar air heat
- Solar architecture
- Solar chimney
- Solar design
- Solar shingle
- Solarwall
- Sonnenschiff
- Southern exposure (terminology)
- TRNSYS
- Trombe wall
Solar design
- Barra system
- Curtis House, Rickmansworth
- Derek Fuller Wrigley
- Drake Landing Solar Community
- Heliotrope (building)
- Helsinki Central Library Oodi
- Light tube
- List of pioneering solar buildings
- Mahoney tables
- Passive cooling
- Passive daytime radiative cooling
- Passive solar building design
- Smart glass
- Solar Building
- Solar Settlement at Schlierberg
- Sonnenschiff
- Sun path
- Sunroom
- Thermal energy storage
- Trombe wall
- Villa Girasole