{"id":2275,"date":"2011-02-21T21:33:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T02:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2011-02-21T21:33:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T02:33:14","slug":"passive-houses-need-no-heating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/2011\/02\/passive-houses-need-no-heating\/","title":{"rendered":"Passive houses need no heating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking with my students about Passive Houses last week, which are designed to be so well insulated that they require no heating system &#8211; just the body heat from a few people will do (think of it as the principle of a four-season sleeping bag, applied to the whole house).<\/p>\n<p>But I hadn&#8217;t realised that <a title=\"USA Today, Feb 17, 2011, &quot;Passive houses aggressively reduce energy&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/greenhouse\/post\/2011\/02\/passive-houses-aggressively-reduce-energy\/1\" target=\"_blank\">they&#8217;re starting to catch on in North America<\/a>, and even that they&#8217;ll work in places like Minnesota&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking with my students about Passive Houses last week, which are designed to be so well insulated that they require no heating system &#8211; just the body heat from a few people will do (think of it as the principle of a four-season sleeping bag, applied to the whole house). But I hadn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2276,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions\/2276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}