maybe about build quality of zero carbon homes?
can zero carbon be achieved?
governemnets attitude towards it?
your ideas will be much appriciated.. thanks 73% 8 Votes
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On a wind swept prarie, a straw-bale solar heated house has a wind turbine cranking out up to 20 kw of electrical power that charges batteries for the car and powers everything in house and workshop.
Now that wind turbine is part of the grid too, so in conventional terms we would not call this house and workshop zero carbon... it is importing grid power and exporting power to the grid, but the turbine is a separate enterprise. By contrast a bank of solar panels on the roof would be an integral part of the building.
Do we imagine that to make it a zero carbon house the wind turbine would have to be mounted on the house? Would a community 1 megawatt turbine make the houses and stores using its power not zero carbon?
Is my house (that is heated mostly by the sun) becoming zero carbon if I sell more power to the grid (from wind) than I use?
Now remember that wind turbine is a separate structure.
Does this make it different if I am part owner of a wind farm instead of owning my own.
I am pushing this envelope too far, knowing that zero carbon buildings is a buildings concept that has little to do with reducing carbon emissions. We do not want to include free standing energy capture systems because it does nothing for the building design way of thinking. Which is ok. Just as long as we understand it is a discipline only tangentially related to carbon emissions. 0% 0 Votes -
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1. Compatibility of long-lived efficient construction with short-term commercial outlook.
2. Life-cycle analysis of components and recycling credits at end of life.
3. Effects of market penetration of PV-heavy buildings on the electrical grid.
4. Compatibility of zero-carbon buildings with transit-oriented development and other integrated approaches. 27% 3 Votes