http://ekoneko.com/blog/articles/2007/12/29/new-houses-waste-energy en-us 40 <p>Greenpeace has today published a <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/finland/fi/mediakeskus/lehdistotiedotteet/greenpeacen-raportti-rakennus" title="Greenpeace report">report</a> about energy efficiency of new Finnish houses (in Finnish, sorry). They claim that with construction that use latest low energy techniques can reduce energy consumption to one third.</p> <p>With the increasing price of energy in any form, this sounds like a very attractive proposal!</p> <p>My own house is warmed with night electricity. It heats a large pot of water during the night with cheaper electricity, and then releases it slowly during the day. While this makes sense money-wise, it will still consume as much or maybe more energy than direct heating with electricity. I need to start considering changing the heating system to something that makes more sense both for costs and for environment.</p> Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:01:00 +0200 urn:uuid:7c718b4b-31c2-4823-9959-37a8ccfb9356 admin http://ekoneko.com/blog/articles/2007/12/29/new-houses-waste-energy Home http://ekoneko.com/blog/articles/trackback/6