Ken Kern - Summer Quotes

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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.

Ken Kern
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.

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

Ken Kern
Bedroom insulation is unnecessary and restrictive of optimum summer sleeping comfort.

Ken Kern
It costs three to five times as much to remove a BTU of heat from a house in the summer as it does to add one BTU of heat in the winter.

Ken Kern