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gravelld

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    Comment #14972629

    How do you plan on dealing with all the induced demand that building more roads brings? Would the roads only be for buses?

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    Comment #14586492

    They also have more harsh summers. To an extent, in some cases, the vernacular protects them from that with high thermal capacity and decrement delay to buffer energy transfer. But…

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    Comment #14586164

    I was referring to the new stock. But be careful with: > Newer housing surely has better insulation You only really know if you test and measure.

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    Comment #14586156

    Double paned windows are hardly some kind of best practice. The Mediterranean countries are still poor. Of Western Europe, only Germany and to some extent Ireland appear serious. Y…

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    Comment #14586139

    Existing stock - yes. New stock - they have learned a lot and appear to be serious about making improvements.

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    Comment #14585776

    A number of examples. One example is that carpets might be fitted afterwards. Because the air tightness design in the first place is so poor, they resort to sealing between floor a…

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    Comment #14585680

    > Requiring better insulation for new buildings is not really that much a thing where you need to raise taxes, because the cost of proper insulation is passed on to builders - and …

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    Comment #14585671

    I'm a UK resident. Either way, the UK will have to fix its houses. There's a trope that new houses are energy efficient... it's not really true; there's going to be a big scandal w…

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    Comment #14585569

    What you describe is the rule in most Western countries. The only countries I know that have their shit together on this are Germany, Sweden and Ireland. The truth is that fixing t…