“Passive houses” are way cool (as in warm) houses
Germany is freezing at the moment, but if you live in one of these so-called Passivhäuser you’re warm as bug in a rug and hardly have to pay anything for your heating, either.
The family in this article spends about $60 a year (as in 365 days) to keep their small home (114 square meters) warm. No joke.
The science behind this gets egghead pretty quick (it utilizes the warmth of the human body, for instance) but it doesn’t cost the world to get your house isolated properly and set up with this technology.
Okay, you would have to make a rather big one-time investment of about $150 to $200 per square meter, but that’s it. Those awful heating bills would then be history. Strangely, this hasn't caught on here to the degree that you would expect. Nobody wants to pay that much out front, it seems.
Lieber passiv warm als aktiv Pleite.
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