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Sustainability Journal
May 2009 Issue (files are in PDF format) |
Heating and Cooling Whole Communities
The cost of AE systems can be greatly reduced, and the installation simplified, if many homes or buildings share a single ground heat store. A generalized way of handling this for a mixture of building types is described in this month's article.
The system described in the previous article introduces many new features that result from the distributed-source capability.