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“Why Move To Virginia?”
Noah and Abigail strapped in for a 3000 mile road trip to Round Hill, Virginia. G r e e n E a r t h E q u i t i e s . C o m
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Renewables, The Last Frontier In Energy Wise Renovation The First Commandment: Fix The House First! How do you know you’ve fixed the house enough to deserve renewables. G r e e n E a r t h E q u i t i e s . C o m
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Fixing The House ... Means: 1. Build a very tight, well insulated envelope including: Insulation, windows, doors, shell tightly sealed and tested. 2. Efficient HVAC including: Properly sized heating - cooling system according to heat load. Tightly sealed & tested ducts.
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How Fixed Is Fixed? Everyone in the Home Performance Industry agrees with the slogan: Fix The House First But there is no agreement on how fixed does it need to get before adding renewables
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Opinions Abound 1. Maximize the envelope till heating and cooling is minimized or not needed. (Passive House) 2. Minimize envelope concerns to code minimums then add plenty of Solar PV (Some Solar Salespeople)
3. Somewhere in between G r e e n E a r t h E q u i t i e s . C o m
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Naked Capitalism With the 3 Packages, Wow! Done, & Energy, We can deliver 50% savings using only our Free Enterprise System without rebates, credits or other stimulants. How about going “the rest of the way” to Zero? Q. Can it be justified without additional rebates or credits?
A. Finding The Answers Will Be Our Mission For The Next 6 Months G r e e n E a r t h E q u i t i e s . C o m
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Our Self Imposed Constraints: Energy Wise Renovator’s
Manifesto 1. We are RENOVATORS. 2. Our Energy Target Is ZERO. 3. Thrive in the FREE MARKET 4. EDUCATE CONSUMERS 5. TRANSPARENT REPORTING
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Video Clips are listed here.
Also all slides from past Webinars
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These are the Solar PV Video Clips for tonight.
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