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- Greenhouse effect and climate protection
- ====== Greenhouse effect and climate protection ====== Everyone is now aware that the Earth is "suffering from fever" – this was the headline featured on the front page of a popular German newspap... ary 2007 the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) published its new "Climate Change 2007"
- Zero-energy and zero heating energy houses
- ====== Zero-energy and zero heating energy houses ====== ===== Foreword ===== The very first zero-en... ses which were built in the 1970s required complicated and costly technical systems. Today however, ex... l and easier approach: cost-efficient highly insulated houses without any heating systems, called Passive Houses, constitute the standard of the future.\\
- Primary energy – quantifying sustainability
- energy demand from non-renewable energy sources that is supplied to the building ((**There are many en... onsumption of limited resources, pollution of the atmosphere with harmful substances (e.g. CO<sub>2</sub>, other greenhouse gases), contamination of the water and soil (e.g. with radioactive waste materials), damage to the environment etc. At t
- Primary Energy Renewable PER
- uction to the topic of PER and further articles that explain the various aspects of this subject area.... enewable) or * the greenhouse gas impact, indicated by CO<sub>2</sub>-equivalent emissions, or the ... and better and their (final) energy use doesn’t matter? The above-mentioned assessment methods sugg... is is not the case. Renewable energy must be generated, delivered, and often stored. Renewable energy
- Life Cycle energy balances, Embodied energy and the Passive House Standard
- and the Passive House Standard ====== ===== Cumulated primary energy demand (CED) ===== A full compa... e cycle period. In the work mentioned, the **cumulated primary energy demand (CED) was compared over a... ding standards** (**Fig.1**). * For poorly insulated buildings, the energy required for their constr... mparison with the energy required in the form of natural gas and for domestic electricity. * The im
- Renewable sources of energy
- newable sources of energy ====== // There are great potentials in improving efficiency, and in additi... ergy go hand in hand for solving the issue of climate protection.//\\ \\ The Passive House is a perfec... umption of a Passive House in a typical cool moderate climate can be covered by **hot water collectors** – because a Passive House requires more energy fo