Sentences with phrase «passive house days»

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There's an opportunity cost lost either way, I put 30K into buying a house to rent, with lots of work day - to - day but potential higher cash flow forever, or I lock 30K into a retirement account now, never to be seen again, to hope for compounding and just enough passive income from dividends to live off way later...

Arguing about stupid shit and being passive aggressive doesn't set a nice tone for the day so I threw in the towel and I decided that working from home was in order and I managed to get some errands and chores done around the house.

The time and temper - ature settings for heating in passive house are far more predictable and, for me, more representative of what's needed in reality — namely 20C, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

Compared to the passive solar technique of using a lot of south facing glazing, the LTMS 1) allows more control over the solar heat gain — it can be turned down or shut off if the solar gain becomes more than the house can use for part of the day, and 2) It eliminates the large heat loss (especially at night) associated with the large amount of south glazing in conventional passive solar homes.

Passive houses feel different to ordinary buildings, which is one of the reasons the International Passive House Days — and the opportunity to experience passive houses first hand — are such a central part of the Passive House Institute's efforts.

I was on a tour of passive house projects in Seattle a couple of days ago when someone asked me, «What do you call the outdoor part of a heat pump?

I'm one of Albert's friends that he mentioned, and our futurefitted passive house did not exceed 76F throughout our 20 days of 90F or greater ambient.

Indirectly, a passive solar house can also cancel the energy requirements for cooling and ventilation (passive cooling), and for lighting during the day.

The detached masonry build had beaten the 0.6 ACH passive house airtightness target during a blower door test a few days earlier.