Zero Energy House

The Zero Balance Energy House is finally off the drawing board and into planning.

Here’s a small taster before i get the complete design concept posted up.

How close can we currently get to producing Zero Energy Buildings (ZEB’s)?

Pretty close today, but at what cost. Certainly not feasible for the most of us thats for sure. But Zero Balancing figures through a calendar year could be becoming possible, Even a 60-80% reduction in your annual running cost would be impressive.

So I’m gonna find out how close we can get to a Zero Energy House and to what price it will cost.

Proposed South Elevation

Proposed Ground floor Plan showing Landscaping detail
Plenty on at the moment but fingers crossed the story will be posted soon

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

Featured image

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,400 times in 2010. That’s about 8 full 747s.

 

In 2010, there were 7 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 24 posts. There were 69 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 19mb. That’s about 1 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was November 24th with 111 views. The most popular post that day was Flat Pack House: Low Energy Style i.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were alphainventions.com, facebook.com, en.wordpress.com, twitter.com, and statistics.bestproceed.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for nick chapple, nickchapple, low energy house, pump track, and low energy houses.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

Flat Pack House: Low Energy Style i August 2009

2

Low energy house, Germany July 2009

3

Autumn 2010 November 2010
1 Like on WordPress.com,

4

Low Energy Housing Article September 2009

5

Ecocity World Summit 2009: Istanbul December 2009