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- Zero-energy and zero heating energy houses
- ====== Zero-energy and zero heating energy houses ====== ===== Foreword ===== The very first zero-energy houses which were built in the 1970s required complicat... tems. Today however, experience with low-energy houses has shown a more practical and easier approach: cost-efficient highly insulated houses without any heating systems, called Passive Hous
- Life Cycle energy balances, Embodied energy and the Passive House Standard
- nergy balances, Embodied energy and the Passive House Standard ====== ===== Cumulated primary energy d... and natural gas consumption during the period of use in the low-energy house is about the same with 45% for each. Improvement is possible mainly through the efficient use of electricity. * The heating consumption of t
- Primary energy – quantifying sustainability
- g ((**There are many environmental effects of the use of not renewable energy**: consumption of limited... ful substances (e.g. CO<sub>2</sub>, other greenhouse gases), contamination of the water and soil (e.g.... , as long as attention is focussed on sustainable use (no deforestation for the purpose of obtaining fu... ge to the environment through conventional energy use. Using solely CO<sub>2</sub> as a parameter for t
- Primary Energy Renewable PER
- ry energy (PE) (non-renewable) or * the greenhouse gas impact, indicated by CO<sub>2</sub>-equivalen... ently our main concern is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the transition to a non-fossil-... -fossil based society and hence they will also be used in the post-transition era. During the transiti... become better and better and their (final) energy use doesn’t matter? The above-mentioned assessment
- Greenhouse effect and climate protection
- ====== Greenhouse effect and climate protection ====== Everyone is now aware that the Earth is "suffer... is now time to act, is sinking in. The Passive House Institute has always refrained from painting pict... nd, with its unchecked fuel consumption, is the cause of global warming. Serious scientific informatio... water and biodiversity...**//|\\ \\ The Passive House Institute doesn't need to add anymore to the info
- Renewable sources of energy
- issue of climate protection.//\\ \\ The Passive House is a perfect example for this: * more than a t... rd of the total energy consumption of a Passive House in a typical cool moderate climate can be covered by **hot water collectors** – because a Passive House requires more energy for the generation of hot water than it does for the heating. The