Sentences with phrase «embodied energy really»

Once you are building to such a high energy efficiency standard, embodied energy really matters, and I continue to believe that it should be part of every Passivhaus designer's toolkit; I think it should be built right into their giant spreadsheet.

Not exact matches

And that's, kind of, the stuff that we've been working on, which is to find things with good properties that don't have a huge amount of embodied energy or depend on really rare materials, because we just can't — you see the volatility in the commodities.

It seems to me that Piccard's point about CO2 balance is really about the embodied energy that it took to create the two Solar Impulse aircraft (HB - SIA and HB - SIB), in the first place: their fuselages, massive wings the span of an Airbus 340, the 12,000 solar cells that line the upper surface of those wings and stabilizer, the motors, batteries, communications and navigation equipment that keeps the plane on track and lets the world watch the flight in real time; not to mention the support team in Switzerland, and in Morocco where it safely flew yesterday, June 21st, from Rabat to the desert town of Ouarzazate.

In addition, embodied energy calculations are almost never done conclusively, really looking at EVERY material that goes into a building, and the localised variations in the procurement chain (eg aluminium in NZ is produced with 100 % hydro electricity), but rather picking and choosing structure, insulation and whatever else is de rigueur.

But what really caught my eye was their environmental statement which includes a great explanation of embodied energy, and why they build in timber.

«The entrepreneurial spirit and energy embodied by SCV and REach companies is really a reflection of the NAR community as a whole,» says Mark Birschbach, vice president of both programs.