Re: [smartgrid-discuss] Passive homes - Maybe we won't have to worry about pricing!

["Toby Considine" <Toby.Considine@gmail.com>]

Sounds like some city boys.

I grew up in an Adobe House (not the
software kind). When the goats got out, they would leap up to and stand
on the windowsills (the walls were a foot thick.) It was a nice thermal
isolation set up for life in the desert. Of course, if you didn't keep
it painted, the walls disolved...

We used wind power as well. Wind pumped all our water out of deep
wells. We stored wind power as potential energy in the sense that water
was way up in the air. During  black-outs, we still had perfect water
pressure.

These ideas are not new. Digital controls and information
technology are new. We are trying to apply them, in a standards based
symmetric way to the distribution, marketing, sales, storage,
generation, conversion, and recycling of elctrons...

tc

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Arshad Noor <arshad.noor@strongauth.com> wrote:

Simply amazing.

If only construction engineers were like software engineers, I might
have had a passive, rammed-earth house 12 years ago.  At least, its
not too late for the next time I relocate.

http://arch.usc.edu/Programs/Research/RammedEarthConstruction.

Thanks for the article, David.  If you do find out the answer to your
last question, please share it with us.

Arshad Noor
StrongAuth, Inc.

David RR Webber (XML) wrote:

This just in:
 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/world/europe/27house.html?_r=2&hp <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/world/europe/27house.html?_r=2&hp>

I got home this evening to find my $1,000 gas delivery bill on the door step - so now I'm thinking - hmmmm - how much to upgrade my home to a passive house?!?
 

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