Building With High Thermal Mass in Hot, Humid Climates
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August 6, 2012
It is hot and humid as hell in most of Texas at the moment. The current conditions call into question whether our normal way of dealing with summer heat (using primarily insulation and air conditioning for cooling) is the only economical and ecological approach to these climate extremes. I became interested using high thermal mass as an alternative while traveling in Turkey with my son Sloan…