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SAFE, HEALTHY, AFFORDABLE, SUSTAINABLE, SUPER DURABLE
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 2, 2019, 7:54 pm
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[center]THE BEST HOME BUILDING MATERIAL?
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[move]SAFE, HEALTHY, AFFORDABLE, SUSTAINABLE, SUPER
DURABLE[/move]
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[center]INTRODUCING NATURAL BUILDING[/center]
The best home building material?
Safe, healthy, affordable, sustainable, super durable building
material.
And you’ll never see it at Home Depot.
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More info here:
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– The featured builder
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– How to classes
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– Treasure chest of info on the
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✨ ROB GREENFIELD’S SUSTAINABLE LIVING 🎍 PROJECT
🌞
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 5, 2019, 6:23 pm
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[center]✨ ROB GREENFIELD’S SUSTAINABLE LIVING 🎍
PROJECT 🌞[/center]
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[move]HOW MUCH DO YOU REALLY NEED?[/move]
How much do you need to live well…if you don’t need to live
large?
A nice place to sleep, a desk, room for some books and a pantry.
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And it costs next-to-nothing and it looks like fun. 👍
If nothing else, it would be a great vacation home, or emergency
home – for less two weeks in a low rent motel.
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Not bad.
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Re: ✨ ROB GREENFIELD’S SUSTAINABLE LIVING 🎍
PROJECT 🌞
DIR By: Surly1
Date: August 5, 2019, 7:26 pm
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> [center]✨ ROB GREENFIELD’S SUSTAINABLE LIVING 🎍
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> [move]HOW MUCH DO YOU REALLY NEED?[/move]
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> How much do you need to live well…if you don’t need to live
large?
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> A nice place to sleep, a desk, room for some books and a
pantry.
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> And it costs next-to-nothing and it looks like fun. 👍
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> If nothing else, it would be a great vacation home, or
emergency home – for less two weeks in a low rent motel.
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This actually looks great. What a wonderful situation he's
created. I wish I was young enough and not a fucking slave to my
creature comforts such that I could do something like this. I
like cable TV, wi-fi and coffee on demand too much!
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True CLEAN Energy Freedom 🌞
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: December 13, 2019, 6:59 pm
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December 13th, 2019 by Jake Richardson
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[center]2 Tesla Powerwalls + Solar Power + Tesla Model 3 = True
Energy Freedom 🌞
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Associated Video:
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🌞 New Prefab Homes Never Need To Be Connected To The
Grid
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: February 21, 2020, 10:34 am
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[center]🌞 New Prefab Homes Never Need To Be Connected To
The Grid
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February 20th, 2020 by Steve Hanley
Dvele is a manufacturer of prefabricated homes headquartered in
Southern California. Building homes in a factory instead of
onsite results in higher quality residences that meet all the
latest building codes and offer efficient living space that uses
a minimum of energy. This week, the company announced that from
this point forward, every home it manufacturers will produce its
own electricity using solar panels and have a built-in battery
storage system, eliminating the need to connect to the
electrical grid at all if a customer chooses not to.
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With the number of grid interruptions due to the risk of forest
fires increasing, many customers are interested in off-grid
living. California is the first state to require all new homes
to have rooftop solar systems. Adding residential battery
storage will help make Dvele homes more competitive in a crowded
market.
Dvele has developed a new building envelope with a thermal
barrier that ensures any heating or cooling produced in the
house stays in the house, according to Curbed. The company
claims its homes need 84% less energy per square foot to operate
than a conventional stick built home, which means running
totally on solar power is actually achievable.
The company has two primary goals — efficiency and
sustainability. Despite having many floor plans and styles to
choose from, most of their homes use common modules, which keeps
design and construction costs low. It also reduces the amount of
waste created and permits the usage of leftover materials in
other modules.
“90% of building and material failures happen due to moisture
build up,” the company says. “But with the quality of our
materials, combined with our building practices that focus on
maintaining the integrity of an air-tight building envelope, we
can radically minimize air leakage and moisture build-up. This
enables our homes to have a significantly longer lifespan and
ultimately require less maintenance. In addition to our material
waste reduction efforts, we are constantly looking for and
incorporating building materials and partners that are committed
to sustainable material sourcing.”
Dvele recently showed off its first self-powered prefab home in
Ventura, California. See the company website
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for a sampling of the styles and options
available.
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DOE to propose first efficiency standards for manufactured homes
in almost 25 years
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 16, 2021, 1:24 pm
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[center]DOE To Propose First Efficiency Standards For
Manufactured Housing Since 'The Sign'[/center]
The Department of Energy may update energy efficiency standards
for manufactured homes for the first time since 1994, Utility
Dive reports. Strengthened standards for new homes could
dramatically benefit the disproportionately low-income
population who live in them because manufactured homes use 70%
more energy per square foot than traditional houses.
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A 2016 draft DOE rule would have saved those living in
manufactured homes thousands of dollars in energy bills over the
lifetime of the home, but the Trump administration did not
publish the rule.
The DOE's approach would use a tiered system with stronger
efficiency requirements applied to more expensive units in order
to limit upfront cost increases and ensure strong cost/benefit
savings over the life of the unit. Utility Dive
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/>NOTE: Energy use per square foot is the WRONG way to look at
manufactured homes. I live in one (see picture above 🤠)
and, not only do I use far less energy overall than the average
stick built (i.e. "traditional") home in the US, but I use less
per square foot as well. Sure, I may be more frugal than most in
energy use, but the point, from a national energy use
perspective, the one the DOE SHOULD be basing their standards
on, is that the average home in the US has TWICE (or more) as
much area in square feet to heat and cool and run pipes and
wires through (and so on) as the average manufactured home.
Consequently, traditonal homes (average size in US is 2,301
square feet) use FAR MORE energy per home than manufactured
homes. The "per square foot" metric is 😈 statistical
sleight of hand similar to the gamed stats the EIA (Energy
🦕 Information Adminstration) publishes. >:(
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My home has 980 square feet. That is LESS than HALF the 2,301
square feet size of an average home. The point is that the
larger sized homes should be targeted for tighter standards
first, simply because they are the biggest energy use hogs in
the US. The 'per square foot' use is a ridiculous metric because
ALL homes have a kitchen and a refrigerator and a water heater
from the getgo. That means that, as you add square feet of
building, your added energy costs are from heating or cooling
ONLY, NOT cooking and food refrigeration (NOTE: Energy use on
lighting in extra rooms is minuscule compared with kitchen and
water heater energy demands.). Thus, as the home square footage
increases, the AVERAGE energy use per square foot DECREASES,
while the the OVERALL energy use INCREASES.
Anyone with an elementary knowledge of energy use in homes could
figure that out. I am certain that the DOE would figure that out
if they took the trouble to compute energy use per square foot
of KITCHEN (and water heater space) in ALL American homes. THEN
those giant freezers and oversized appliances (see:
refrigerators, water heaters, etc.) in traditional homes would
prove that traditional homes are the ones that actually use more
energy (BY FAR MORE THAN 70%!) per square foot.
That said, I agree tighter standards for ALL homes are a good
thing. If the government will subsidize solar panels, improved
insulation and heat pump installation for the owners of
manufatured homes, who are, like me, low income folks, that
certainly would be a welcome action.
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We manufactured home owners are the least economically able of
all home owners to pay the cost of making our homes carbon
neutral. Making us the whipping boy of the DOE is exactly the
wrong approach to reducing energy use per square foot in homes
in the
USA.
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