Energy is Arguably The Most Important Issue facing America today
The escalating price of energy impacts low income people the most. We are very dependent on imported energy, which has led to deadly, avoidable, trillion-dollar, oil-related wars. Fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) are badly polluting our planet. Energy has driven the United States deep into national debt, which will burden our grandchildren for many decades to come. Energy consumes public money that could otherwise be used to stimulate the creation of good local jobs, reduce poverty, and provide: food, homes, better education, and healthcare for tens of millions of worthy Americans.
Much attention has been paid to the inefficiency of our heavy American SUV’s, and how we will provide fuel for gas guzzlers in the future. BUT, BULIDINGS waste far more energy in the U.S. than Transportation OR Industry. 70% to 90% of the energy consumed by buildings being built today is wasted uselessly by inefficient construction. Eliminating energy waste (and high energy bills) is therefore our Number One Political Priority, which has the potential to greatly reduce the extent of MANY other modern American political problems
The Outstanding GOOD NEWS is that the number one solution to our number one problem is NOT difficult to implement – It is just different than conventional wasteful design. Since the first 1978 Solar Energy Tax Credits, Larry Hartweg has demonstrated how to Eliminate Energy Bills with Zero Energy DesignTM. He is one of the world’s foremost experienced authorities on the subject. The U.S. Department Of Energy and Oakridge National Labs selected Hartweg to Present “Three Decades Of Lessons Learned” at their prestigious 2007 International Buildings Conference in Florida:
Larry Hartweg's book on Zero Energy Design® has more detailed information about eliminating energy bills. ZED combines energy conservation with cost-effective existing solar energy technology. An 800-page ZED eBook is available, plus 500 detailed presentation slides from Hartweg’s all-inclusive DOE / ORNL Workshop. We do NOT have to wait for the development of new energy technology. What we do need is better education about what we knew how to do years ago.
If you are interested in cost-effective, proven, government-subsidized ways to eliminate energy bills, harmful carbon emissions, and man-made damage to Earth’s fragile environment, you will appreciate this comprehensive compilation. You should begin by viewing the free public information and pictures on ZeroEnergyDesign.com. The ZED trademark is “Abundant Energy In Harmony With Nature.” It is based on a plentiful supply of FREE Solar and Wind Energy,
$10,000's of government incentives are currently available to home buyers, and over $100,000 of energy equipment rebates for commercial buildings. Low income families may qualify for FREE DOE programs, which have already reduced energy bills for over 5.5 million affordable homes by an impressive average of 31%. ZED can help you ELIMINATE your energy bills.Zero Energy Design®, Inc. assists with energy-saving innovations - from large commercial buildings and multimillion-dollar homes, to mass-produced low-income affordable $60 per sq .ft. Zero Energy Homes that have outstanding features you’ve probably never seen before.
Hartweg is a Second-Generation Energy Research Scientist with a proven track record. His previous development efforts have helped generate over a Billion Dollars of Revenue, while lowering consumer cost and improving our environment. He provides Executive Management Energy Consulting, Training for Architects, Builders, Legislators, Environmental Groups, and Presentations of “The Future Of Energy,” “Zero Energy Design®,” and “Managing Creativity with Major Innovations.” ZED is the #1 solution to the world’s #1 problem.Contact ZEDmaster@ZeroEnergyDesign.com
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Abundant Energy Brilliant Future
Zero Emissions - Never Burn Anything !
Earth's atmosphere is approaching 400 ppm CO2. Our unsustainable rate of greenhouse gas emission is increasing at 2.1% per year. The last time CO2 was 500 ppm, there was essentially no polar ice or glaciers on Earth, and sea level was 200 feet higher.
As Earth's human population explodes, we are killing between 50,000 and 100,000 acres
of CO2-sequestering trees PER DAY - More people - More CO2 - Higher temperatures -
Higher sea level - Less oxygen to breathe. This is an undeniable path toward the extinction of humanity.
When atmospheric CO2 reaches only 1% (10,000 ppm), ALL HUMANS WILL SUFFOCATE. Witnesses have said that coal miners who encounter 1% CO2 "die like they were shot by a gun." We already have rapidly-increasing Asthma rates and respiratory disease around the world.
Earth is now past the greenhouse-gas tipping point. Ice is melting. Overall average worldwide temperature and sea level ARE rising slowly. The huge snow storms of 2010 were caused by one of the warmest January's in history, which saturated our atmosphere with water vapor.
Flooded coastlines now seem to be unavoidable in the 21ST century. New York City utility tunnels, basements and subways may soon begin to fill with water. The homes and offices of a billion (formally wealthy) coastal residents could be flooded in one-or-two 21ST century generations. What will the world do then?
What IF the kind of NASA scientists that sent man to the moon are correct about the catastrophic consequences of man-made worldwide climate change?
REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS BY ONLY 15% IS
FAR TOO LITTLE, FAR TOO LATE.
For thirty years, Al Gore has known that human CO2 emissions increase Global Warming. BUT, he has hypocritically refused to change his own lifestyle, When he won an Oscar for "An Inconvenient Truth", his Tennessee home was burning 20 times more CO2-emitting natural gas than an average American home. Now, he is recommending natural gas powered cars. Gore's 100-foot houseboat has two huge CO2-emitting diesel engines that burn cancer-causing biofuel.
We do NOT need biased climatologists that exaggerate and lie about their data. We to NOT need hypocritical politicians who do NOT practice what they preach telling us what to do. They are easy targets for idiots like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Senator Jim Inhofe who lie that: "Global Warming is a political hoax."
Earth's climate is ALWAYS changing. Long before homo sapiens, ice ages and global warming greatly influenced what life forms thrived or went extinct. Since the Industrial Age, human activities HAVE undeniably accelerated Earth's delicate climate change process.
Simply knowing this is NOT enough. We must radically reinvent our lifestyle.
Energy IS essential to our existence.
BUT, we must build our future on clean, green, free-fuel energy. The only rational sustainable pollution solution is
to
immediately STOP building and buying things that burn anything. NO Exceptions - NO Compromise
CO2 accumulates incrementally and stays in Earth's atmosphere for a century. Our reasonable, achievable SHORT-TERM, NO-COMPROMISE GOAL must be Zero Emissions, Never Burn Anything - NO wood, biomass, coal, oil, natural gas, cancer-causing biofuels, or deadly nuclear waste that pollutes the Earth for a thousand years.
Zero Energy Design® and the U.S. Department Of Energy demonstrated HOW to do it cost-effectively three decades ago. President Carter subsidized clean, FREE-FUEL solar-and-wind energy development in 1978 (until Reagan canceled Carter's Energy Independence program and subsidized importing foreign oil from the unstable Middle East).
America's current $40 Billion subsidies of unsustainable, environmentally-damaging,
fossil fuels and Obama's recent $54 Billion commitment to nuclear fission are nothing
less than SUICIDAL. The nuclear power industry was a major contributor to Obama's campaign. David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel have significant ties to the nuclear industry.
Is this suicidal corruption the legacy that we should leave to our innocent grandchildren?
Our Zero Energy Design® eBook CD-ROM illustrates the specific details of over 1,000
zero emission ideas to make it happen with today's technology. We have already been
demonstrating zero emission success for over 30 years.
NEVER USE ROOF ANGLED GLASS ! ! !
This is a primary NEVER-VIOLATE ZED MANDATE. It may look like a good solar energy thing to do (to a person who is clueless about ZED) but, Roof-angled glass is a huge heat loser on winter nights, when warm air rises to touch the low-thermal-resistance highly-conductive glass. It is also a huge heat gainer on hot sunny summer days. This is the plain and simple absolute scientific truth, often overlooked by those who should know better.
VERY BAD DESIGN SUMMER AND WINTER !
These two stupid houses were costly failed experiments - by others
Their arrogant non-learning architects thought they were wonderful
BUT - They used more expensive energy than conventional houses
It is expensive to remove the glass from the roof and then insulate.
In the summer, huge exhaust fans with fresh air intakes cannot possibly make a greenhouse with roof-angled glass cooler than the outside air temperature. However, in a ZED greenhouse, the peak interior greenhouse air temperature is much lower than the peak outside air temperature, by using intelligent design and NO ROOF-ANGLED GLASS EVER!
Roof-angled glass is often leaky, and is difficult to shade or insulate. When the huge expensive Houston Astrodome was first built, they quickly wound up painting the glass. Many important issues had been completely overlooked by the expensive (but clueless) architects. As the expensive special paint peeled off the glass, the roof became REALLY UGLY.
Condensation forms on the inside of roof angle glass on cold days, and especially winter nights. Roof angle glass with stuck-on leaves, grass, debris, or rained-on dust, dirt, mold, mildew or algae is UGLY and difficult to clean. Just look at the windshield of your car, if you leave it outside very long. The sticky stuff on the glass exterior builds up and becomes worse over time. Small twigs carried by the wind often get stuck in the glass mounting system. I’ve even seen a mis-delivered newspaper lodged on a glass roof. That really impresses your guests (negatively). Would YOU like to slide around on top of a large glass roof to do maintenance?
STUPID, expensive, modern roof-angled glass architecture
Roof angle glass is at high risk of breaking in hailstorms, and possible heavy ice-and-snow loads in some northern locations. Rain and ice get caught uphill of a skylight mounting system, and can build up and expand underneath the roofing materials, causing leaks and rotting the surrounding roof decking. Water leak discoloration often forms below skylights on the ceiling, walls, or carpet. Large roof glass metal mounting systems can oxidize, rust, corrode and lose their paint over time – a real ugly maintenance headache.
Roof angle glass is ALWAYS BAD ON ANY BUILDING in any location. Roof angle glass is NEVER GOOD. New England settlers learned this important lesson hundreds of years ago by simple observation of poor thermal design, when every house was “off the grid” (no public utility companies back then). Old homes with roof angled glass simply did not survive for long. I can’t imagine why this dumb thing is happening today.
Plenty of cheery natural light can be designed into an intelligent modern Zero Energy Home using efficient vertical south-facing glass only. Even the most-northern rooms can make advantageous use of southern glass, using interior glass and mirrors – look at any of our ZED floor plans. We can easily accommodate artists who want diffused daylight, WITHOUT using north-facing roof-angled glass.
If you see a building with ANY roof-angled glass (skylights, domes, etc.) it’s clueless architect is BLIND, DUMB and COMPLETELY STUPID about the most critical issues of passive solar design, and ZED. Listen to NOTHING that such an idiot has to say about energy. If they have not discovered this foundational principle by now, they are a Non-Learning Entity with Zero Powers Of Observation. Let them experiment with someone else’s money, NOT YOURS.
Non-learning architects’ first experience with designing a passive solar house should be with their own home, so they will learn well the true price of ignoring the wisdom of others, and repeating the stupid mistakes that many have made before them, like roof angled glass. A few years of high winter night and summer day energy bills should be a memory they will never forget.
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Zero Energy Design® Vision
Energy Prototype Community Of Tomorrow
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
Humans MUST have a compelling irresistible vision of a superior tomorrow. It provides the Action Motivation
(discussed
in Chapter Three of our ZED eBook) to solve problems and move forward in the midst of adversity. Our Zero Energy Design® state-of-the-art visionary-community-proposal for one million prosperous people
is Emerald Eco-City
.
Hope is the essence of continual improvement, and the inspiration for making every new day incrementally better than yesterday. Focusing on the many errors and failures of the past, can lead to either negative depression, or the positive search for superior future solutions. Each of us must choose our attitude toward the past and future, which will determine the potential of what we will surely become.
We must learn from the past, but not dwell on it. We need to amplify and build upon our good experiences; Learn from, laugh at, and correct previous bad things. We need to develop and dwell on a persuasive picture perfect vision of the future that influences all of our thoughts
We did not inherit the Earth from our parents, to plunder for our selfish desires.
We borrowed the Earth from our children, and we must return it to them one day soon.
Our children will judge the value of OUR lives by the legacy we leave for them and theirs.
Live a meaningful life worthy of praise from your grandchildren.
Energy Efficient Mortgage (EEM)
Zero Energy Homes can now
receive financial incentives of tens of thousands of dollars, depending on your state’s energy efficiency programs. New 2007 legislation is extending these valuable subsidies, but most Americans simply don’t pay attention to what our government is encouraging us all to do.
For new homes that meet strict qualifications, the Energy Efficient Mortgage program (EEM) makes new Zero Energy Homes cost LESS initially, and have LOWER TOTAL MONTHLY PAYMENTS than a conventional home with large energy bills.
The new U.S. Energy Efficient Mortgage (EEM) program means that a Zero Energy Home can now have total monthly payments that are LESS THAN A CONVENTIONAL HOME per square foot. It means lower monthly payments, AND lower total payments over the life of the home – This is cost effective instant investment payback on day one. There is NO REASON NOT TO BUILD A ZERO ENERGY HOME, instead of an obsolete conventional home (with ever-increasing utility bills). The 25-year savings on an average-sized three bedroom ZED home can be more than $150,000, plus interest – And, much more for larger ZED homes. Low cost affordable near Zero Energy Homes can cost as little as $60 per square. Even Habitat For Humanity has demonstrated dozens of Zero Energy Homes, with direct support from the U.S. Department Of Energy (US DOE), and Oakridge National Labs (ORNL).
Energy Efficient Mortgage (EEM) Information Sources:
http://www.HUD.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/eem/energy-r.cfm
http://www.EnergyStar.gov/index.cfm
http://www.FHA.com/energy_efficient.cfm
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