this is an article about a zero-energy house in oklahoma that was built for under $200,000. sounds good, right? that is what i thought until i read the article and looked at the pictures. i guess it is a step in the right direction...maybe a really small step.
also, the best quote in the article has to be: "Every time they do a demonstration site, they run out and they hire some brilliant architect and they go off and they build this one-off amazing house that sticks out of the neighborhood like a prairie chicken, and it costs a million dollars."
now i'll get back to pursuing a career as a "brilliant architect" specializing in designing "prarie chicken houses".
Ideal homes is one of those builders that builds 50+ of the same house in a single neighborhood<see photos in article, take the photovoltaics off of the roof and it looks like any other Ideal home in OKC>. Cheaply / poorly constructed. For some reason Oklahoma <specifically Oklahoma City, Moore and the majority of Norman> tends to be fearful of anything progressive.
I guess what i'm saying is that yes, its a step in the right direction but it may be the wrong person doing the walking
Also notice all of the windows on the south side of the house <under the photovoltaics> with no shading devices. Hooray for geothermal and solar panels.. I bet if you looked only at the summer months the house is nowhere near "net zero"
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this is an article about a zero-energy house in oklahoma that was built for under $200,000. sounds good, right? that is what i thought until i read the article and looked at the pictures. i guess it is a step in the right direction...maybe a really small step.
http://www.housingzone.com/article/CA6332828.html
also, the best quote in the article has to be: "Every time they do a demonstration site, they run out and they hire some brilliant architect and they go off and they build this one-off amazing house that sticks out of the neighborhood like a prairie chicken, and it costs a million dollars."
now i'll get back to pursuing a career as a "brilliant architect" specializing in designing "prarie chicken houses".
*"prairie chicken houses"
Ideal homes is one of those builders that builds 50+ of the same house in a single neighborhood<see photos in article, take the photovoltaics off of the roof and it looks like any other Ideal home in OKC>. Cheaply / poorly constructed. For some reason Oklahoma <specifically Oklahoma City, Moore and the majority of Norman> tends to be fearful of anything progressive.
I guess what i'm saying is that yes, its a step in the right direction but it may be the wrong person doing the walking
Also notice all of the windows on the south side of the house <under the photovoltaics> with no shading devices. Hooray for geothermal and solar panels.. I bet if you looked only at the summer months the house is nowhere near "net zero"
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