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How to Really Save Money and Energy in Cooling Your Home
by George S.Barton
ISBN:148 pages   5.5x8.5 inches [size]


A great three part guide to low cost home cooling! This book covers everything you have not heard of for cooling your house. The illustrations simply and easily convey to you how your house gets hot and how to keep it from getting hot. This book will save you MONEY on your AC BILL faster than anything else you have seen. If you are one of those $250+ a month Summer AC bill people, get this book.

$17.95

 
 
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The cost of energy directly impacts how we think about heating and cooling our homes. The cooling of homes is accomplished today almost exclusively by means of electric air conditioning. Just like virtually every other modern process or activity, air conditioning is being called upon to contribute its share of improvements in efficiency to alleviate the cost of operation.

Many homeowners have done what has been preached so profusely: insulate, insulate, insulate. Some progress has also been made in the efficiency of air conditioners. Yet, homeowners continue to be faced with skyrocketing air-conditioning bills. It almost appears as if in the future the choice will be either to accept, afford, and pay for astronomical electric bills, or sacrifice comfort. However, this is not so for Knowledge Publications customers.
>Yes, air conditioning will continue to be the basic tool utilized to cool homes.
>Yes, electric rates are climbing and will continue to do so. We cannot eliminate entirely the air conditioner, nor can we instantly stop the increase in electric rates by some energy trick.

There is a different way to substantially reduce the workload on air conditioners, thereby reducing electricity consumption, without any sacrifice in comfort. Via reading How to Really Save Money and Energy in Cooling Your Home you will learn why current methods of cooling are wasteful, and why conventional measures to save energy are mostly cosmetic. You will see a clear description of the principles and practical techniques of a method totally different from what you are using now.

This book WILL enable you to SAVE a substantial portion of your home-cooling costs. This is the reason for the "REALLY" in the title.

Figures 7 and 8 were built following exactly the directions in Section 8. These are typical shape curves for a home with electric air conditioning but fossil-fuel (gas or oil) heating. Of course, the level of the curves may be higher or lower depending on the size of the house, number and type of appliances, percentage of time used, etc. But you should be able to draw "base lines" as shown, averaging the usage during the months that the air conditioner is NOT used. This base line will tell you what your usage of electricity is for operating lighting, the washer, dryer, tools, etc.

Part Two: The Basics

Transmission of Heat

We know that a house may be pleasantly cool in the early morning hours of a summer day, but, as the temperature increases during the day, somehow heat comes from the outside of the house to the inside. This happens even if all doors and windows are kept tightly closed (Figure 12). What air conditioning does is simply to reverse the process, and make the heat go back from the inside of the house to the outside. Heat transfer, any heat transfer, really is the migration of heat from a warmer place to a cooler place. Note that we purposely use a comparative word, warmer or cooler, not hot or cold, because in heat transfer we are always dealing with relative conditions of temperature. Even a place which is "cool" by one standard, will appear "warm," if we compare it with another place which is at a much lower tem­perature.

 

Specifically in the case of a house, the most important type of convection heat transfer can be seen in Figure 17. This represents a cross-section of a gable roof, where the heat absorbed from solar radiation sets in motion currents of air surrounding the house following the patterns shown by the arrows. Inside of the roof, that is, in the attic, convection also occurs as shown by the closed loops. The inner surface of the roof acts as the heating element and the air keeps circulating, transferring heat to the attic floor (ceiling of the upper living area) as long as there is a supply of heat through the roof.

Convection is a relatively inefficient form of heat transfer, but, as with the other modes, the rate will increase as the difference in temperature between the warmer place and the cooler place increases. This is certainly so in the case of a hot roof in the summer.

One reason why convection is widely used is that a rapid change of temperature may be obtained if the fluid (liquid or gas) is moved vigorously enough. The trouble is that moving fluids is itself a process that requires considerable amounts of energy. Moving air in an air-heated house requires a good-sized fan. Moving air in an attic, through an attic fan, also requires a powerful motor. An additional problem of the attic fan is that the forced convection that it creates from one end of the house to the other combines with the natural convection shown in Figure 17 to create the spiral pattern (Figure 18), effectively improving the contact between air, the inside surface of the roof, and the floor of the attic. The result is more heat transferred, not less. Of course, as the superheated air is expelled from one end, more outside air at lower temperature comes in; so that, overall, there is some cooling effect. However, this small help does not come cheap.

 

 

 

 
 
 
 

How to Really Save Money and Energy in Cooling Your Home
by George S.Barton
ISBN:148 pages   5.5x8.5 inches [size]

$17.95