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Originally Posted by Daox
Ditto what AC Hacker said. Passive house is the way to go IMO. There is a house in Illinois designed to passive house specs, and it heats itself with a 1500W just electric heater, when needed.
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I love the idea, but the costs and construction time has me looking the other direction.
Its not so much as the work involved but the time and money that's involved.
If the land is suitable a passive house with the soil pushed around it and over the roof i would indeed like.
I am wanting a cement house to start with so covering it in soils would be a cinch.
I am going to look into some concrete passive houses and see what i can afford and build myself.
Combined with a 9000 Btu heat pump, it will heat better with only 750 watts of PV panel.