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Looking for Common Ground in the Solar Debate
A utility group and a major environmental organization issue a joint appeal to regulators to balance utilities’ financial needs with efforts to encourage PV installations
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Why I Hate, Hate, Hate Skylights
Skylights have a low R-value, provide cold surfaces for condensation, interfere with roof venting, and contribute to ice dams
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Habitat’s New Net-Zero House in Minneapolis
University architecture students have designed a house with 8 inches of extruded polystyrene insulation on the exterior side of the wall sheathing
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Strength in Numbers
Keeping score can help you make your business profitable, design more energy-efficient homes, and better understand home performance
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Exhaust-Only Ventilation Systems and Radon
Do exhaust-only ventilation systems increase the risk of radon entry?
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Deciding on a Water Heater
Why we chose an electric water heater instead of a solar water heater
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Do Combustion Safety Testing Protocols Need Fixing?
Dr. Vi Rapp of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab says one test in particular doesn't help as much as we think it does
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Toronto Hosts Energy Conference in April
A scientist who was on the Nobel-Prize-winning U.N. climate change panel will deliver the keynote address
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Flash and Batt in the Roof
Adding up the R-values of different types of insulation may not yield a sum that the building code will accept
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What’s the Definition of an ‘R-20 Wall’?
It’s surprisingly tricky to determine what the code means by an ‘R-20’ wall
