gravelld

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by gravelld 9y ago
How do you plan on dealing with all the induced demand that building more roads brings? Would the roads only be for buses?
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by gravelld 9y ago
They also have more harsh summers. To an extent, in some cases, the vernacular protects them from that with high thermal capacity and decrement delay to buffer energy transfer. But if you then have a fashion for large windows... not so much
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by gravelld 9y ago
I was referring to the new stock. But be careful with: > Newer housing surely has better insulation You only really know if you test and measure.
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by gravelld 9y ago
Double paned windows are hardly some kind of best practice. The Mediterranean countries are still poor. Of Western Europe, only Germany and to some extent Ireland appear serious. You also have smaller jurisdictions, e.g. Brussels where some
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by gravelld 9y ago
Existing stock - yes. New stock - they have learned a lot and appear to be serious about making improvements.
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by gravelld 9y ago
A number of examples. One example is that carpets might be fitted afterwards. Because the air tightness design in the first place is so poor, they resort to sealing between floor and skirting and other such bodges. Carpet fitters hate such
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by gravelld 9y ago
> Requiring better insulation for new buildings is not really that much a thing where you need to raise taxes, because the cost of proper insulation is passed on to builders - and the end users pay that, but in turn they have lower heati
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by gravelld 9y ago
I'm a UK resident. Either way, the UK will have to fix its houses. There's a trope that new houses are energy efficient... it's not really true; there's going to be a big scandal when everyone realises how the targets (w
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by gravelld 9y ago
What you describe is the rule in most Western countries. The only countries I know that have their shit together on this are Germany, Sweden and Ireland. The truth is that fixing these problems is going to be expensive. Governments are just