<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif;font-size:large">Wood house needs rebuilding every 34 years, minimum, EPS house, NEVER, witch has the most Embodied Energy?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="http://about.me/StyroHome" target="_blank"><font><span></span><span></span>http://about.me/StyroHome</font></a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Gennaro Brooks-Church - Eco Brooklyn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@ecobrooklyn.com" target="_blank">info@ecobrooklyn.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Although the greenwashing on EPS is strong. It has huge amounts of embodied energy. I have not done the calcs (vs. wood and cellulose for example) but that very large amount of embodied energy needs to be mentioned and taken into account.<div><ul style="margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px;list-style-position:initial;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:14px"><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 20px;padding:5px 0px 0px 5px;font-size:12px;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Cellulose: 600 BTU</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 20px;padding:5px 0px 0px 5px;font-size:12px;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Mineral wool: 2,980 BTU</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 20px;padding:5px 0px 0px 5px;font-size:12px;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Fiberglass: 4,550 BTU</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 20px;padding:5px 0px 0px 5px;font-size:12px;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Polyisocyanurate: 14,300 BTU</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 20px;padding:5px 0px 0px 5px;font-size:12px;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="display:inline;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(139,141,9)">EPS</span>: 18,000 BTU</li></ul></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div>Gennaro Brooks-Church<br>Director, Eco Brooklyn Inc.<br>Cell: <a href="tel:1%20347%20244%203016" value="+13472443016" target="_blank">1 347 244 3016</a> USA<br><a href="http://www.EcoBrooklyn.com" target="_blank">www.EcoBrooklyn.com</a><br>22 2nd St; Brooklyn, NY 11231<br></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Gennaro Brooks-Church - Eco Brooklyn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@ecobrooklyn.com" target="_blank">info@ecobrooklyn.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div>, ErgoDesk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ergodesk@gmail.com" target="_blank">ergodesk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'arial narrow',sans-serif;font-size:large">Build the entire House from EPS <a href="http://goo.gl/bpmmmJ" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/bpmmmJ</a> </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I love this. Amazing.  </div></div></div></div>
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