Ken Kern - Cooling Quotes

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Cooling by evaporation of water or by fans and warming by heaters and fireplaces are artificial aids... From a practical, economic, or aesthetic point of view it makes much more sense to develop, where possible, constructional features for warming or cooling the owner-built home.

Ken Kern
Supplies of wood fuel may be a byproduct of thinning, pruning, and harvesting homestead tree crops. These trees also provide the homestead with groundwater [for natural evaporative cooling and fruit], with protection from the sun, wind, and erosion, and with fodder, fruit, and nuts for animal and human consumption. Tree crops also furnish shelter and forage for the wild birds...

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Enough is known today about natural ventilation for summer cooling to warrant the entire replacement of artificial air-conditioning devices.... prevailing breezes enter small, louvered openings at the lower section... circulate across the "living zone," rise and then exit through larger, higher openings in the opposite wall.

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The Arab's tent... actually consists of two separate tents. The outer tent is white and acts as a heat-reflective layer. The lower-inner tent additionally protects... by providing a blanket of moving air between the two tent layers.... this tent system also illustrates the two, most basic principles of summer cooling: reflective insulation and ventilation.... One system must supplement and reinforce the other.

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It must have been in Iran that Frank Lloyd Wright got his brilliant idea for cooling a house... During the summer months, the sunken fireplace hearth was filled with water. Down-draft air movement from the chimney circulates over this pool to cool... This unusual fireplace has a summer-cooling as well as winter-heating function.

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Cooling systems... need only supply a drop of from 10 to 20 degrees below that of the outside temperature.... greater cooling differentials... are a real injury to health.

Ken Kern
Most houses grossly violate the basic principles of natural summer cooling and sound winter heating.

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