{"id":1622,"date":"2013-05-31T11:09:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T11:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2013-05-31T11:09:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T11:09:07","slug":"because-we-dont-live-in-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2013\/05\/because-we-dont-live-in-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Because we don’t live in cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

The thing is, owning a car is a thing of the past and owning a ready to be off the grid <\/em>passive house is the future.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I never really quite get into excitement mode when I hear Elon Musk. Electric cars and battery charging stations, cool. But I don\u2019t want to invest in that, only use them as a last resort in my life. I\u2019d be much more interested in some kind of quick and fast public transportation system deployment based on monorails, owned and co-operated between cities and private companies (It happened but failed: Nobody Walks in L.A.: The Rise of Cars and the Monorails That Never Were<\/a>). You know, trying to reach and help as many people as possible.<\/p>\n

Annual energy cost in average Alaska home: $5,470. That (passive) house<\/a>? 900 bucks. In one of the toughest climate in the world. It\u2019s a small house of course in this hell you can\u2019t do passive AND big. But it cost $169,500.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s two Tesla model S \u201clite\u201d cars. The performance model is at $96,070 (sold $146,500 in Europe). It makes me daydream.<\/p>\n

A passive house for a \u201cnormal\u201d climate would probably cost around 80K, maybe less. And now it looks like something I would totally invest my money in. That\u2019s pure Quality of Life right here. That\u2019s saving money, forever.<\/p>\n

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Little passive boxes, little passive boxes, little passive boxes, little passive boxes.<\/em><\/p>\n

What I\u2019d like to see is a website where you would order your house, get it prefab, mounted in a week, finished in a month. Hemp insulation all the way, local farms and plants to grow and make houses in order to limit transportation.<\/p>\n

Best part? All of that is possible right here right now, not in 2016 at best when finally Tesla cars get kind of affordable to start to make a difference. I am just saying. <\/p>\n

One more thing I read on the internet.<\/p>\n

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Buildings have a lifespan of 50-100 years during which they continually consume energy and produce CO2 emissions.  If half of new commercial buildings were built to use 50% less energy, it would save over 6 million metric tons of CO2 annually for the life of the buildings\u2014the equivalent of taking more than 1 million cars off the road every year<\/u><\/strong>.\u201d<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Boom.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The thing is, owning a car is a thing of the past and owning a ready to be off the grid passive house is the future. That\u2019s why I never really quite get into excitement mode when I hear Elon Musk. Electric cars and battery charging stations, cool. But I don\u2019t want to invest in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}