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RESIDENTIAL ENERGY
LABORATORY
Located
within a Net-Zero Source Energy Home
As
an individual, what can you do about:
- greenhouse gas buildup in the atmosphere?
- oil
spills from wells blowing out or tankers
colliding?
- foreign wars over oil supplies?
Very little??
Actually, since buildings in the U.S. are estimated
to consume 40% of the
energy used in the country, these problems associated with conventional
energy
sources can be directly addressed by building energy efficient homes. This is something that
each individual can
take direct responsibility for, and government and industry can only
assist
in. The percentages
may change some for
other countries, but the conclusions are the same… individuals can
dramatically
reduce their energy use through proper design of their homes.
Objectives of
this
website:
- Provide
a road map for designing a low-energy
or net-zero energy consumption home, especially for a house located in
a predominately heating
environment
- Demonstrate
computational tools that can be used
by homeowners to design low-energy consumption houses, or retrofit
existing
houses for energy efficiency
- Demonstrate
these tools as applied to a
near-net-zero source energy home, the Residential Energy Laboratory
(REL)
- Provide
detailed operational data such as actual
utility bills with energy consumption for the REL, as well as indoor
and
outdoor temperatures and humidity so that the accuracy of different
computational
tools may be evaluated
- Establish
a forum to discuss improvements to computational
tools used for energy-efficient designs
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