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Does the article say that large buildings are more expensive to heat? It seemed to me its point was that other energy uses far exceed the costs of heating. Fu
by threepipeproblm 10y ago
Does the article say that large buildings are more expensive to heat? It seemed to me its point was that other energy uses far exceed the costs of heating.
Furthermore these scaling laws don't necessarily hold when there is a paradigm difference. E.g. you don't worry about scaling laws when comparing a building that can be lighted mostly (or entirely) from natural sources to one that can't; in fact the smaller scale is more efficient from this perspective.