Treehugger: 800 Watt Hours A Day! The Most Efficient Modern House?
Treehugger: 800 Watt Hours A Day! The Most Efficient Modern House?: "800 Watt Hours A Day! The Most Efficient Modern House?
July 14, 2006 01:30 PM - Justin Thomas, Virginia
This house has the conveniences of a modern house, but consumes only 800Whr on average per day. Compare this to a typical U.S. suburban house that uses 45 kilowatt hours (kWh) per day. How is this reduction possible? It's through the strategic use of ultra-efficient appliances, daylighting, and passive solar design for temperature control and ventilation. But what's the secret of the house's amazingly low power consumption? Using solar power, the house generates 120V AC, but it's also wired for 12V. The living room has three 7W 12V compact fluorescent lamps, a 12V Widescreen LCD TV, a DVD player, and an efficient surround sound stereo system. The office has a Mac laptop acting has a desktop, and all other computer peripherals are switched off automatically when not in use. When not lit by daylight, the office uses compact fluorescents lamps, and 12V LED desk lamps."
Kind of sounds like my solar home out it the desert, but I use leds for lighting instead of compact fluorescents. I do dry my clothes with a Thermonuclear Device (Clothes line). About time folks start thinking solar power where less is even more! //bob
July 14, 2006 01:30 PM - Justin Thomas, Virginia
This house has the conveniences of a modern house, but consumes only 800Whr on average per day. Compare this to a typical U.S. suburban house that uses 45 kilowatt hours (kWh) per day. How is this reduction possible? It's through the strategic use of ultra-efficient appliances, daylighting, and passive solar design for temperature control and ventilation. But what's the secret of the house's amazingly low power consumption? Using solar power, the house generates 120V AC, but it's also wired for 12V. The living room has three 7W 12V compact fluorescent lamps, a 12V Widescreen LCD TV, a DVD player, and an efficient surround sound stereo system. The office has a Mac laptop acting has a desktop, and all other computer peripherals are switched off automatically when not in use. When not lit by daylight, the office uses compact fluorescents lamps, and 12V LED desk lamps."
Kind of sounds like my solar home out it the desert, but I use leds for lighting instead of compact fluorescents. I do dry my clothes with a Thermonuclear Device (Clothes line). About time folks start thinking solar power where less is even more! //bob
posted by Bob DeLoyd at 1:27 AM
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