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basics:the_passive_house_-_historical_review:poineer_award:saskatchewan_conservation_house [2015/04/13 14:58] wolfgang.hasper@passiv.debasics:the_passive_house_-_historical_review:poineer_award:saskatchewan_conservation_house [2015/04/14 14:44] (current) bwuensch
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 [{{:picopen:saskatchewan_house_orr2_kleiner.jpg?500|Winner of the Pioneer Award 2015: The Saskatchewan Conservation House built in the 70s in the Canadian city of Regina. Photo: Harold Orr}}] [{{:picopen:saskatchewan_house_orr2_kleiner.jpg?500|Winner of the Pioneer Award 2015: The Saskatchewan Conservation House built in the 70s in the Canadian city of Regina. Photo: Harold Orr}}]
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 If you were to wake up today, get in your car to go to work, found that you need gas for the car, proceed to your favourite service station and find that the price of gas has doubled from yesterday. You look across the street and find the competitor has the same price. What do you do? If you were to wake up today, get in your car to go to work, found that you need gas for the car, proceed to your favourite service station and find that the price of gas has doubled from yesterday. You look across the street and find the competitor has the same price. What do you do?
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 What did we learn? Conservation is much less expensive than solar. For every dollar we spent on reducing heat loss from the house, with a better air barrier and more insulation, we saved at least 10 dollars on the size of solar collectors and equipment needed to achieve the same thing. Now let us look at some of the details of the house. What did we learn? Conservation is much less expensive than solar. For every dollar we spent on reducing heat loss from the house, with a better air barrier and more insulation, we saved at least 10 dollars on the size of solar collectors and equipment needed to achieve the same thing. Now let us look at some of the details of the house.
basics/the_passive_house_-_historical_review/poineer_award/saskatchewan_conservation_house.1428929904.txt.gz · Last modified: 2015/04/13 14:58 by wolfgang.hasper@passiv.de