<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Benjamin Pratt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:benjamin.g.pratt@gmail.com">benjamin.g.pratt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
What do you think of these articles?<br>
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<a href="http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/musings/walls-need-breathe-and-9-other-green-building-myths" target="_blank">http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/musings/walls-need-breathe-and-9-other-green-building-myths</a><br>
</blockquote><div>#1 who cares?<br>#2 as he concedes, walls do need to be able to dry out when they get wet. Hair splitting<br>#3 not well argued, besides he fails to consider the owner (dweller)-builder option which changes the economics<br>
#4 o.k.<br>#5 first one that I found useful and that I can agree with<br>#6 technical point I've never stumbled over/heard claimed - fine<br>#7 forest~/~trees a home that 'needs' a compressor AC is a badly designed home<br>
#8 stretching to fill his list here. Why is this on the list?<br>#9 "When it comes to heat distribution, a <a class="glossary-term hovertip_target" href="http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/glossary/8#term962"><span>Btu</span></a> is a Btu."Talk about a myth!<br>
#10 contradicts his debunking of #3<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<a href="http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/musings/more-energy-myths" target="_blank">http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/musings/more-energy-myths</a>?<br></blockquote><div>He discovered Rick Diamond and Mithra Moezzi's paper. Good for him. Now we're cooking with gas.<br>
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