[Greenbuilding] simple energy-less home

[Sacie Lambertson]

Interesting take John.  While I'm sure you are correct, most people would
not possibly understand any other measurement.

Certainly though, point taken.  The Kw used on our electrical bill is half
the entire bill.  And then one has to consider what the kw charge is in
each area; we're quite high here out in the country where our coop buys
from the big electrical makers.

And then some people do measure happiness in dollars (:
Sacie


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 6:56 PM, John Straube <jfstraube at uwaterloo.ca>wrote:

>  Using dollars to measure energy is like measuring happiness with
> dollars. There is some correlation but quite limited.
>  I know of a cottage in Ontario that paid more then 30 per month while
> it's electrical system was torn out eg. it used zero power during that
> time.
>  Kwh or btu or even joules should be used for measuring energy use.
>
>
>  Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network.
>    *From: *Reuben Deumling
> *Sent: *Wednesday, May 22, 2013 18:21
> *To: *Green Building
> *Reply To: *Green Building
> *Subject: *Re: [Greenbuilding] simple energy-less home
>
>  Cool. I'd like to see numbers, though. When you have PV on the roof,
> $240 doesn't mean that much (at least to me).
>
>  My family's annual energy bills total $400 of which >half are fixed
> charges unrelated to usage and I have no PV.
>
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Sacie Lambertson <
> sacie.lambertson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Very simply designed house in Maine uses little energy to operate:
>>
>>
>> http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/10895176/list?utm_source=Houzz&utm_campaign=u284&utm_medium=email&utm_content=gallery1
>>
>>  Lots of readers' comments follow.
>>
>>   Sacie
>>
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