{"id":4133,"date":"2022-07-05T18:54:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T18:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=4133"},"modified":"2022-07-05T18:54:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T18:54:31","slug":"we-still-have-to-keep-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2022\/07\/we-still-have-to-keep-going\/","title":{"rendered":"We still have to keep going"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My parents are building a final home back in France. They have been working on it for a couple years now, and submitted plans to start construction.<\/p>\n<p>This is a passive house with all the goodies to follow <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Passive_house#Standards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the standards<\/a>. So, very sustainable, green, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The plans have been rejected by the local administration because they don\u2019t \u201crespect\u201d the local architecture. This is a house that\u2019s invisible from anywhere from the road.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 10,000 miles away in the city next to mine:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/see\/uploads\/big\/2538275c8b24126a7170f0c8453f3f99.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a new building, and the orientation on this picture is West\/South. This building is 100% black (absorbing 30% more heat than if it was not black), with high windows from floor to ceiling that are cooking inside. No problem! Let\u2019s run A\/C units on top of the roof, 24\/7, using an absurd amount of electricity to cool down a not-smart design that was easy to avoid!<\/p>\n<p>We know how to solve every problem on earth. Systems govern us to just not do anything.<\/p>\n<p>We have to keep going, making the right choices, despite the systems which are quite dumb, deaf, and blind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My parents are building a final home back in France. They have been working on it for a couple years now, and submitted plans to start construction. This is a passive house with all the goodies to follow the standards. So, very sustainable, green, etc. The plans have been rejected by the local administration because [&hellip;]<\/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\/4133"}],"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=4133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4134,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions\/4134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}