Energy Without Oil

A new technology (enertia.com) for building homes that heat and cool without fuel or electricity. Enertia Homes use free energy from a shift in time. All natural materials and natural energy.
See more homes at our website - enertia.com

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• enertia
• architecture
• solar
• energy
• home
• house
• green
• sustainable
• hybrid
• timber
• wright

[tenzingyatso]

Didn't that house burn in the last California brush fire???

[qdewill]

No way! You must be thinking of some other house.

[UlrikeDG]

Great concept, but 30 degrees in the winter is NOT cold!

[qdewill]

The great thing about cold is that REAL cold is usually accompanied by Sun. Clouds moderate the cold. So, when the temps get down, down, down, the Sun is out and the house performs beautifully.

[Faiakes]

Is this available outside the US?

If so please give info.

[qdewill]

In theory, yes. The first international home has just been ordered - going to Belize.

[qdewill]

So far it has worked in WA and OR.

[qdewill]

You are correct that in areas where basements are out of the question, there are different design parameters. It would not work the same way, and would not have the same design goals.

[qdewill]

Large timbers have an excellent fire rating. It is the small stuff, like in framed houses, that burns quickly. In a true forest fire, a heavy timber home would eventually burn, as would just about everything else - except for the random hops and leaps of fire.

[qdewill]

Again, as in the response above, wood IS eco-friendly. What other material cleans the air and makes it more breathable. Proper forest management and replanting are the KEY.

All new things are expensive until they reach a large production/distribution point where prices can come down. If everything had to be affordable to get going, then we would have nothing.

[qdewill]

Wood IS eco-friendly if the trees are harvested at the right point in their life cycle, if the forest is cared for properly, and if the trees are replanted in a ratio of several planted for one harvested.

[janb6969]

all this makes sense in my imagination and it doesn't seem like some new cutting edge technology so my question is this. why has it taken until the 21st century to build such houses?

[qdewill]

The wood is NOT used for it's insulative properties. It is used for its absorbtion/storage/thermal intertia/radiant heat properties. This absolutely has to do with the thermal properties of the building materials. The name "Enertia" is a play on "inertia" - "energy - "environmental" - and is defined by the inventor of the word as "Energy from a shift in time" because this is the property that allows one to use energy stored during the day to work for you at night.