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What is needed is a window that reflects summer sunlight and transmits winter sunlight.
My solution is to make windows of relatively high refractive index glass and coat the outside with an anti-reflective layer. Light entering from high/shallow angles (summer sunlight) will travel through the anti-reflective coating and then be reflected (by 'total internal reflection') from the inside face of the window. Light entering from a low angle (winter sunlight) will go straight through without reflection.
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