SOME DAYS AGO we read an essay by Dr. Peter Mires, a geographer from the University of Delaware. THE subject was the ages-old use of solar energy. BACK in the day - way before we worried about fading fossil fuels and carbon footprints - we captured solar energy passively through what he calls "equator-facing fenestration.

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