admin wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 11:14 am
The first step, mandatory high end insulation standards.
Tyvek, at least 2 inches of isopull foam insulation, and double pained pvc windows. It will also drive everyones house values collectivelly a bit.
Where you are in the south is not that cold. A few days of year below zero in the morning.
Even burning green wood, with a well insulated house you cut the need to heat at all down to 10 to 20% of the year, and possibly even those few days you need to heat you cut it down to 20 or 30% of that day.
My theory is start by not waisting or letting energy escape from the system, then worry about how much energy you need to inject in to the system. Really, with a well insulated house, you can get by with a sweater most of the time down here.
After that go talk to woody over at renewablies outside pourto montt. He only does big wind, solor, etc projects, but might be interested in doing something for a development your size. Not paying an eletric bill and having backup eletric might be a real selling point for lots to make your project stand out, beyond all the eco bla, bla.
Just an idea.
Exactly I'll mention that to the Seremi, it's what I've thought too .
You see smoke billowing out of chimneys in houses that you can practically see inside through the gaps in the windows or doors.
When we had a house in Christchurch New Zealand in 2006 they were trying to sort out air quality issues from wood burners there too. The local municipality there
(presumably with funds from central government too) offered 10 years interest free loans, that you paid off quarterly together when you paid your property tax payments, so it was like 50 bucks a quarter or something, I can't remember exactly. If you sold the house within that time you had to pay the loan back in full. It was ceiling insulation, underfloor insulation as well as a heat pump installed, they call them splits here, they pump out warm air in winter.
Win win win around if you have a co ordinated approach.
Even provides more employment, good for the environment and good for home owners.
In the Lakes Region Chile for 6 years. It looks like New Zealand in some ways, and is nearly at the bottom of the world too, but there the similarities end.