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

[Norbert Senf <mheat@mha-net.org>]

At 03:39 PM 2000-01-27 -0800, Brian Hood wrote:
>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.
Hi Brian:

The design heat load was about 3.5 kW. In 1976, a kW-h was probably around 
$.02, or about $1.70 per day. This is at minus 40F, so would be the peak 
load. Average load would be less. I don't think that they were ignorant 
about solar orientation, etc., so there would be some contributions there. 
$35/year does seem low.

The story was told by Harold Orr, one of the researchers, as a presentation 
at a design conference.

I do know that the Saskatchewan Conservation House was the prototype for 
the Canadian R-2000 program, and the first example of superinsulated, 
airtight housing using an HRV (which was home-built using plywood and poly ).

Best ....... Norbert
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