[Greenbuilding] Fwd: energy savings myths

[nick pine]

Gennaro Brooks-Church - Eco Brooklyn <info at ecobrooklyn.com> wrote:

>After building a Passive House in NY I learned it only needed insulation to 
>code - R18. What made it or broke it was how well the 6mil plastic air 
>barrier was sealed. Just a one inch hole in the plastic rendered the house 
>unable to heat with the tiny mini-splits. Seal the hole and you can heat 
>the house with a hair drier.

Absolute bullshit! Hogwash! Rubbish! Nitwit! Try using actual numbers!

Frank Tettemer <frank at livingsol.com> wrote:

>Even having been experimenting and physically working on these questions 
>for over fourty years, it has taken most of a generation of time to cut
our household's daily energy consumption to two armloads of firewood, about 
a dollar's worth of propane, and two to four kilowatts of
electricity per day.

More absolute bullshit... Kilowatts are power, not energy. This list is 
about energy. Learn the difference between power and energy!

Nick