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Old 12-29-2008, 07:59 AM
 
Location: Kittery
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Old 12-29-2008, 08:46 AM
 
Location: Waldo County
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Great article! I ordered the book. As we get nearer to the time when we will want to start construction of a new home, I am becoming more and more frustrated with what is a lack of truly new forms of heating and energy use in homes here. Our desire is to be more than "carbon neutral", but to approach a zero carbon footprint on the property. What we have found so far is that passive solar heat can work well for about 75-80% of heating needs. That means that there will need to be "something else" for the rest of the winter. That something else is either wood or fossil fuel based heating equipment, neither of which is particularly attractive to us.

I am looking forward to reading the book from the Passive House Institute. Quite likely the real advances in energy efficiency in home design will come from Europe where energy independence is a goal that has become one of national significance for most nations.
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Old 12-29-2008, 01:09 PM
 
Location: Forests of Maine
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It would be cooler it used all passive heating methods, instead of being so energy dependant.

We have looked at heat-recovery ventilators.

There is a firm in Bangor that even sent out an guy to do an estimate for installing one here in our home.

Very expensive beasts, and they use a lot of power.
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