Building Sciences: Thermodynamics: Its Not Rocket Science

If NASA has trouble with the second law of thermodynamics, then it should not be surprising that FEMA, HUD, the hotel industry and homebuilders have trouble too. We seem to forget that there are two sides to a wall and there are four seasonstwo of which are summer and winterand that means that vapor drives go both ways. We must be mindful of the second law to build better and more efficient buildings.

Citation: ASHRAE Journal, Vol. 49. No. 12, December 2007



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