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Park Passive House is First in Washington State

Benji Jerew — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:49:32 +0000

What is a “passive house?” The idea has been around for about twenty years, building the world’s most-efficient homes. Perhaps better if I let someone else explain what a passive house is and where it all started, in 1991… The idea of the passive house is to significantly reduce energy expenditures in the home. Typical […]

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Electronically-Controlled Tintable Glass Inventors Receive Grant from DOE

Cristi — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:25:06 +0000

A Minnesota-based invention company called Sage Electrochromics, Inc has received a financial loan of $103 million from the Department of Energy for it's breakthrough glass innovation, a window that can be switched on or off to reject up to 98% of the sun's heat and light on a push of a button.

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Passivhaus: German-Style Superefficient and Superinsulated Home

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:42:58 +0000

Passivhaus is a German concept of a home that needs very little heating or cooling, because it is so well insulated that it could basically be built on martian surface. There are more then 20,000 of these Passivhaus homes worldwide, many of them being buildings, kindergartens and office spaces.

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