<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Martin,<div>Without going back to the details, I could be mistaken, but it seems that a study by Ken Haggard a while back addressed this or similar properties. I found reference in a GSBN email from '07- see below. Is this the same metric?</div><div><br></div><div>Laura</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>John,<br><br>There is that chapter from Ken Haggard and Polly Cooper on Natural<br>Conditioning in the book Alternative Construction where they look at<br>this. I was looking at it just recently for some curriculum development.<br><br>Laura<br><br>John Swearingen wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Very interesting paper, and well written. Some time ago I remember hearing<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">someone toss out some similar observations about thermal storage, that on a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">diurnal cycle, plaster is activated to a depth of about 2-3 inches<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(5cm -7.5cm). I have always figured that the exceptional thermal<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">performance of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">straw bale buildings is not due solely to the high R-value. The broad<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">thermal mass of the plastered walls, readily available to indoor air for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">heat exchange, modulates temperatures like my pink Cadillac modulates bumps<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">in the road.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Does anyone know of research and measurements of short and medium thermal<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">storage in walls?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">John "Diurnally Yours" Swearingen</blockquote></div><div><br><div>
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