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The passive house trend is booming
- throw0101d 2y agohttps://archive.today/WEGtC https://archive.today/WEGtC https://archive.is/WEGtC https://archive.is/WEGtC https://archive.is/https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2024/10/30/passive-house-adoption-surges/ https://archive.is/https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2024/...
- throw0101d 2y agoOne doesn't have to go 'full passive' to receive benefits. A few not-too-expensive tweaks in new home construction can have a noticeable improvement in efficiency (which saves money long-term) as well as comfort (more consistent temperature/humidity, few drafts, etc): * https://www.prettygoodhouse.org https://www.prettygoodhouse.org * https://www.finehomebuilding.com/project-guides/insulation/is-a-pretty-good-house-good-enough https://www.finehomebuilding.com/project-guides/insulation/i... * https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/pretty-good-house-benchmarks-and-assemblies https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/pretty-good-hou...
- anovikov 2y agoI think passive houses were a hope for decarbonisation when solar power was very expensive, usable grid storage battery nonexistent, and heat pumps, unreliable. These days at least here in Europe, most of the time a climate-friendly home can be built without going to extremes of thoroughly retrofitting a home, or building a new one because "passivhaus" standard is sometimes impossible to retrofit to. Sure some heat insulation measures help, but main thing is switching to electric heating using a heat pump and it already lowers carbon footprint a great lot vs fossil fuel boiler heating.