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energy issues in the built environment

Month: September, 2011

Enough Pain to Spend $$ on Upgrades?

I have come around to the view that “deep energy retrofits” in the residential sector are a pipe dream, at least at any sort of scale that is significant. Why? Well, they’re expensive, and utilities just don’t hurt most homeowners enough. The “pain” of most folks monthly bills isn’t large enough for them to justify [...]

Carbon Tax and Markets for Retrofit

My good friend Scott, and frequent commenter, pointed out that it’s been a month since my last post. I have lots of excuses for that but will bear you the boring details. Probably as he was writing to tell me that frustrating piece of information I was reading a post from MR that responded to [...]