Climate change, energy, and economics: Why isn't every building passive solar?

American Solar Energy Society - Solar 2006: 35th ASES Annual Conf., 31st ASES National Passive Solar Conf., 1st ASES Policy and Marketing Conf., ASME Solar Energy Division Int. Solar Energy Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 781-786

  Garrett, Vicki ^a   Koontz, Tomas ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCE; DEMAND-SIDE; ECONOMIC INCENTIVE; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS; LOW COSTS; NEW CONSTRUCTIONS; PASSIVE SOLAR; PASSIVE SOLAR DESIGN; PHASE 1; PUBLIC PERCEPTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMERCE; DESIGN; MARKETING; SURVEYS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84867947356     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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