Comments on: A Window that Can Both Heat and Cool your Home http://freshome.com/2007/11/05/a-window-that-can-both-heat-and-cool-your-home/ Freshome is the perfect source of inspiration for home design, furniture inspiration, interior design, architecture, advices and tips. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:42:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: keithwins http://freshome.com/2007/11/05/a-window-that-can-both-heat-and-cool-your-home/comment-page-1/#comment-9839 keithwins Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:36:29 +0000 http://freshome.com/2007/11/05/a-window-that-can-both-heat-and-cool-your-home/#comment-9839 Hmmm: well, as drawn the enormous seal around the reversible glass couldn't possibly make sense: If you're only changing it once a year, make it lift out and reverse, instead of a full-perimeter-seal that's virtually guaranteed to leak. And of course, it'd be interesting to see the extent of the "heat diode" degree. Low-E coatings are always somewhat directional, but I don't think the effect is large. Still, interesting idea. Keith Hmmm: well, as drawn the enormous seal around the reversible glass couldn’t possibly make sense: If you’re only changing it once a year, make it lift out and reverse, instead of a full-perimeter-seal that’s virtually guaranteed to leak. And of course, it’d be interesting to see the extent of the “heat diode” degree. Low-E coatings are always somewhat directional, but I don’t think the effect is large. Still, interesting idea.

Keith

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