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I am living in the EU and writing from personal experience. Fad is fad even if it makes it into law. Mineral wool has other disadvantages. But we digress, I am
by rini17 6y ago
I am living in the EU and writing from personal experience. Fad is fad even if it makes it into law. Mineral wool has other disadvantages.
But we digress, I am firmly convinced that such narrow focus on energy efficiency of buildings to the detriment of other things is exactly the "affluent" technological solution the paper is critical about.
- tpm 6y agoI understand that, but also think what makes it a not-fad is that EU does not have a lot of its own energy sources and winters can be hard. So to me it makes sense to try to be as energy efficient as possible and also not send a lot of money to e.g. Russia if it's avoidable. I also understand that constructing low-energy buildings is much harder than the standard ones. But I fully believe that science and engineering, when given such task, can master that, given enough time.
- rini17 6y agoIt's not so hard, but EU is so far removed from practice that it can't set up the incentives right. There's a parallel with EU's policy on biomass energy that ended up (partially) driving deforestation here in Slovakia.