ENVD 4035
Making effective use of technical information; market approaches; of general applicability to environmental problems; aimed at the first party participant.
This course will deal with solar energy and sustainable design. As an introductory course, there will be opportunities to exercise both the right and left sides of your brains. The first half of the course will carefully examine passive solar design. This is more of a science than is sustainable design. As a science, (passive solar design) there are formulas, calculations, angles and finites answers. This objective section of the course will give a strong foundation for the second half; sustainable design. Sustainable design is more of a theory; an approach, than a science. The reasons for good solar design lie in broader issues. Social responsibility is not a subject but an ideal. It is out of our understanding of a broader series of questions that more appropriate designs may emerge and responsible designs, so-called, may be built. To the end of solar design as a science, we will study the basics of solar technology, including: climate, heat gain/loss, passive solar concepts, storage, solar cycles, control, utilization, strategies and so on.