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Generally, yes. They tend to have a lot of corners (for their "architectural features" checklist), and those are really hard to insulate well. They also tend
by Syonyk 4y ago
Generally, yes. They tend to have a lot of corners (for their "architectural features" checklist), and those are really hard to insulate well.
They also tend to be purchased by people who don't care in the slightest about energy efficiency, because if you can buy a $10M home, the difference between $500/mo or $1500/mo in energy costs doesn't matter to you.
- wolfram74 4y agoCompeting element though is they probably have more land to put solar on, so if they don't find it to be aesthetically incompatible, they could probably push through those energy losses.
- blacksmith_tb 4y agoSure, and they could shrug off the cost of installing a ground-source heat pump[1] too, which would be too expensive for more modest homes. But they'd again have to give a damn, which I am only semi-optimistic about... 1: https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/5-things-you-should-know-about-geothermal-heat-pumps https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/5-things-you-should-kno...