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+ | ====== Energy and ecology ====== | ||
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+ | ==== Greenhouse effect and climate protection ==== | ||
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+ | Everyone is now aware that the Earth is “suffering from fever” – this was the headline featured on the front page of a popular German newspaper on 5th November 2006. On 2nd February 2007 the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) published its new “Climate Change 2007” report. Slowly the realisation that it is now time to act, is sinking in. | ||
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+ | ===== Primary energy – quantifying sustainability ===== | ||
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+ | The primary energy demand determines the impact on the environment. | ||
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+ | ===== Embodied energy and the Passive House Standard ===== | ||
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+ | ===== Renewable sources of energy ===== | ||
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+ | There are great potentials in improving efficiency, and in addition, energy efficiency and renewable energy go hand in hand for solving the issue of climate protection. [[Basics: | ||
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+ | ===== Zero-energy and zero heating energy houses ===== | ||
+ | The very first zero-energy houses which were built in the 1970s required complicated and costly technical systems. Today however, experience with low-energy houses has shown a more practical and easier approach: cost-efficient highly insulated houses without any heating systems, called Passive Houses, constitute the standard of the future. [[Basics: | ||
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+ | ===== Supplying Passive Houses with sustainable energy ===== | ||
+ | Climate change caused by humans is a threat to flora, fauna and our entire civilization. We must therefore reduce net greenhouse gas emissions to a sustainable amount. Possible future solutions in the building sector include zero-carbon / zero-emissions buildings, which are already required in some areas. [[planning: | ||
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