Performance of the brisbane solar house

Abstract A house with an absorption air conditioning system operated by flat-plate solar collectors has been built in Brisbane, Australia. After briefly describing the house and equipment, the paper gives the performance of the house for a typical clear summer day. It is suggested that the equipment performance should be adequate for the air conditioning of houses in the Australian tropics where reliable summer insolation is available. However, the results of a cost study of various types of air conditioned houses for the Australian tropics show that solar air conditioning is only marginally economic.