Tag: NZE
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A Classic 1970s Home Goes from Solar-Heated to Net Zero Energy
Subtitle: Richard Levine’s Raven Run house in Kentucky has evolved over the decades Images: Last week I was in Lexington, Kentucky speaking at the Midwest Residential Energy Conference. It was a great regional conference, and the folks there are making things happen. (I even played nice. With all those Kentucky Wildcat fans there, I held…
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Is NIST Serious About Net-Zero-Energy Homes?
Subtitle: Their report cites the need for a scoring system, but inexplicably fails to mention the HERS Index Images: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) still handles a lot of our basic numbers work, keeping lasers, hunks of metal, and atomic clocks that determine our standards of length, mass, and time. But it…