www.thesolarvillage.com - Passive Solar

Tell others to see http://www.thesolarvillage.com/ . Andreas Delleske is a member of a private group that built a "passive house" that uses only 1.5 litres of oil per square meter per year for heating. An architect and a biologist worked together to combine alternative energy and alternative waste management concepts. They found friends who were also interested and involved in energy topics. In the end sixteen members decided to build the home together in 1997. The house is composed of twenty units. The price overall of the building was only 7% higher than conventional new built homes. The house has a higher value since the residents pay very little for energy to heat the home. The entire structure required, which includes twenty units, each unit having about 90 square metres, and the annual utility bill was only 140 euros. Often people pay ten times this amount annually. By building with a group there are also savings in terms of sales and marketing costs.

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Tags:

• sustainable
• living
• community
• passive
• solar
• green
• energy
• power
• house
• building
• Freiburg
• Germany

[millamulisha]

lol natural gas, russia... haha. i like it though

[HomesteadProvocateur]

Neato, but this guy talks in monotone and it is hard to keep following..(Yawns) Sweet passive solar apartment complex..

[naflodi]

maybe if you insulated it really well?

[03cammd79]

i'm pretty sure it would be near impossible to keep the water hot for over 2000 miles of pipeline submerged in the north atlantic...

[03cammd79]

well, in the modern buildings theres quite alot but some just have tin walls and rooves...

[naflodi]

Can you run a pipeline to Canada? It gets cold here.

[tycotyrann]

Don't know for sure, but it's about the doubble. Which should be about 400mm thick. But search the web, info available.

[naflodi]

Interesting. Can you tell me how much insulation they have in the walls and roof?