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- 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
- Zero-energy and zero heating energy houses
- to the environmental problems relating to energy use for space heating could be so simple. Against this background, the energy-autarchic house has also become feasible - although the effort is... made in the short time since the first Passive House prototypes were built in the early 1990s, especia... evelopments are under way. The energy-autarchic house is still too expensive and complicated for implem
- 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-... become better and better and their (final) energy use doesn’t matter? The above-mentioned assessment ... d for all applications. For these reasons, energy use must be efficient: energy efficiency is the prere
- 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
- 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