The architectural eyesore to the right is the first "carbon-free" home. In fairness to the Daily Telegraph, whilst it insists on talking about "carbon-free" houses, the one on the left will apparently be given a "near carbon-free certificate", at least they used the word "near".After all, what could be sillier than calling a house made with a timber frame "carbon-free"? Plus of course it will contain electrical items on standby, as well as a toaster, and boy will that timber frame pump out some CO2 compared to brick when the arsonist decides to have some fun.
It would seem though that they've solved the problem of human beings being "carbon pollutants" whenever they breath out. Apparently, it's an "Air tight building". I guess that will stop any potential CO2 escaping into the atmosphere.
OK, so you'll be dead in your sleep if you shut the windows, but it's a price worth paying to save the planet right? We human beings are the cancerous problem after all, and some of the more extreme environmentalists do believe that a mass cull of human life would go a long way to solving all the problems Mother Gaia faces.
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I think it's quite pleasing on the eye, but then I like weird/wonderful buildings.
Timber is surely carbon neutral in that is absorbs while growing and emits the carbon back when it rots? Similarly with humans we are only emitting the carbon that the potatoes, wheat, etc. absorb when they grow?
Not sure I like the idea of a sealed house though.
So the digger that cleared the site was water powered, or wind-up?
“Gordon Brown, the prime minister in waiting, announced last week plans for Eco-towns of 20,000 similar new homes.” 20,000 similar homes? Sounds like a horizontal council tower block to me.
“The Code for Sustainable Homes, launched in April this year” But those brick terraces and stone cottages that are still standing must take the prize for sustainable. They have certainly stood the test of time.
“All timber from sustainable sources [cos, like, it grows back] and the design and construction delivering a claimed 100 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions over standard building regulations.” I was fairly good at maths at school, but they didn’t introduce that market-speak of percentages less. My little brain reads zero carbon emitted in the construction. Someone please tell me what “a 100% reduction” actually means…
S in these new Eco-towns, cars are banned? Everyone will get to the station on bicycles? Or a tram/trolley bus powered by solar panels and wind turbines? Do able. Tescos will deliver the groceries by horse & cart?
Why have flushing toilets? Sorry, they missed an opportunity to save water there, and take pressure off infrastructure.
Surely it's about net carbon release (so, for example, timber is 'carbon free' because you can just replant trees)?
it's called cynical sarcasm Adam.
I was replying to Flashgordonzz.
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