@jeffw@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agoTIL about “passive houses,” building that are airtight and require barely any energy to heat or coolen.m.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1211arrow-down114file-text
arrow-up1197arrow-down1external-linkTIL about “passive houses,” building that are airtight and require barely any energy to heat or coolen.m.wikipedia.org@jeffw@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square24fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish10•2 years agoHas to be some kind of air exchanger
minus-square@RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish-11•2 years agoSounds more dangerous than it’s worth.
minus-square@jeffw@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglish9•2 years agoConsidering the number of people who have lived safely like this for years, and that some places (Massachusetts, USA) require it for apartment buildings/multi family units, makes me think it’s pretty well understood
minus-square@ludwig@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-22 years agoHere is a schematic I found on the Swedish version of this article: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Passive_House_scheme_1_multilingual.svg I suspect not all passive houses are built in this except way though.
minus-square@jeffw@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoThe WSJ article has a diagram explaining the air stuff
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Has to be some kind of air exchanger
Sounds more dangerous than it’s worth.
Considering the number of people who have lived safely like this for years, and that some places (Massachusetts, USA) require it for apartment buildings/multi family units, makes me think it’s pretty well understood
Here is a schematic I found on the Swedish version of this article: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Passive_House_scheme_1_multilingual.svg
I suspect not all passive houses are built in this except way though.
The WSJ article has a diagram explaining the air stuff