Re: GBlist: hybrid systems: passive solar + everything??

["Brian Hood" <brian@hoodlight.com>]

Norbert:
I agree with your point 100%, but this seems a made up story. Using your own
numbers, if accurate, you could never heat this house for $35 per year. In
cold weather it would cost around $2 per day.

And an active solar heating system won't cost $70,000. Not that active solar
seems all that great to me.

 >
> The design loads in the Saskatchewan Conservation House are 11,500 BTU per
> hour at a design temperature of minus 40F. It is about the same size as a
> 1100 sq. ft. bungalow with a completely finished basement. Such houses in
> Saskatoon are being designed with a heating load somewhere on the order of
> 60,000 to 80,000 BTUs per hour.
>
>
> Small tent trailers. In any case, to heat this house with electric heat
> costs about $35 per year. We had a $70 - $80,000 heating system to provide
> $35 worth of heat, which doesn't make sense..."
>
> Norbert


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