Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home • Hacker News Board

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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Post by llao » Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 9:37 AM UTC

leppr wrote: post #93

cwkoss wrote: post #57

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I can't recommend Kirsten Dirksen's channel enough to people interested in architecture, energy efficiency, tiny homes, 'green' construction, etc. Literally hundreds of hours of high-quality content - I'm really curious how she is able to find all of these interesting people who are doing such cool things. Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDsElQQt_gCZ9LgnW-7v-cQ Some other favorites: Baubotanik shapes living…

As well as having great content, the format of her videos is also top-notch. It's way too common to see architecture videos where the camera won't linger more than 5 seconds on anything else than some random zoomed-up composition. In her videos, you can actually appreciate and immerse yourself in the spaces and the various details. The videos are usually between 10 and 20 minutes and she's not afraid to push it furth…

Unfortunately the camera is wobbling a lot which gives me an headache. I cannot watch that. :(

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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Post by TumorousJoker » Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 9:37 AM UTC

estomagordo wrote: post #177

harperlee wrote: post #168

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The (crazy-ass, yes) definition is in the article: the period the house needs heating.

Yeah, I noticed they mentioned needing heating for about that long. But, really, they didn't explicitly call that winter. Nor should they.

No need to be pedantic, it's cold 9 months in a year, and that's the point we are trying to make here.

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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Post by kowdermeister » Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 9:38 AM UTC

estomagordo wrote: post #177

harperlee wrote: post #168

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The (crazy-ass, yes) definition is in the article: the period the house needs heating.

Yeah, I noticed they mentioned needing heating for about that long. But, really, they didn't explicitly call that winter. Nor should they.

For me winter starts below 15 degrees Celsius :) But for example on Tenerife there's only spring and summer. These things are flexible :)

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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Post by sambe » Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 9:38 AM UTC

theothermkn wrote: post #28

csours wrote: post #18

I've thought about building a house in a barn to save on heating/cooling (Texas, it's dadgum hot here). But this is much much cooler (or warmer, if you're in Sweden)!

You might like Matt Risinger's YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/MattRisinger . He's a builder in the Austin area who does very energy efficient homes. He uses (a variation of?) this thing called a "100-year wall" system, the gist of which is that the entire envelope of the house is sheathed and sealed, basically turning the frame of the house into "furniture," in that it's in a conditioned space. The big…

A sibling comment suggests that the insulation-on-the-inside approach (for cellars, at least) has been found to be wrong anyway for moisture-on-the-inside.

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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Post by eecc » Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 9:52 AM UTC

LIV2 wrote: post #176

eecc wrote: post #151

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You seem to be missing the point. It’s not just about building higher dikes. It’s about the ethical soundless of pissing tons of CO2 in the wind just because you can’t be bothered to wear a sweater. (What does that inscription next to Leidseplein say?) Edit: it’s also not just about higher dikes in NL, the effects of that CO2 goes well beyond the Dutch border. It’s Global Warming after all... global. The cognitive di…

Ethics are subjective

Not when the consequences of our actions are not.

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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Post by danielfoster » Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 10:00 AM UTC

Any insights on what this would cost to build?

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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Post by mosselman » Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 10:02 AM UTC

TumorousJoker wrote: post #182

estomagordo wrote: post #177

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Yeah, I noticed they mentioned needing heating for about that long. But, really, they didn't explicitly call that winter. Nor should they.

No need to be pedantic, it's cold 9 months in a year, and that's the point we are trying to make here.

Then write that. Saying winter lasts 9 months is nonsense and nonsense in journalism should be pointed out, though not as aggressively perhaps.

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 10:11 AM UTC

cwkoss wrote: post #57

oftenwrong wrote: post #8

This house was the subject of a Kirsten Dirksen video in 2015: https://youtube.com/watch?v=30ghnDOFbNQ

I can't recommend Kirsten Dirksen's channel enough to people interested in architecture, energy efficiency, tiny homes, 'green' construction, etc. Literally hundreds of hours of high-quality content - I'm really curious how she is able to find all of these interesting people who are doing such cool things. Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDsElQQt_gCZ9LgnW-7v-cQ Some other favorites: Baubotanik shapes living…

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Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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Post by harperlee » Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 10:16 AM UTC

mosselman wrote: post #187

TumorousJoker wrote: post #182

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No need to be pedantic, it's cold 9 months in a year, and that's the point we are trying to make here.

Then write that. Saying winter lasts 9 months is nonsense and nonsense in journalism should be pointed out, though not as aggressively perhaps.

Well now that I think about it, I do welcome literary devices when they are so obvious that they only assume primary schooling. Normally they make the text more human, more fun. Also, I can't really see someone getting deeply confused by this; and momentarily confusion is even good to revisit some knowledge from time to time.

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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Post by jowsie » Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 10:19 AM UTC

DoreenMichele wrote: post #178

eesmith wrote: post #162

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I think you've been here long enough to know that a phrase like "automatically and without exception" is likely a poor interpretation of what the parent poster meant with "standard household activity". I was born and raised in Florida. In Miami I lived in a 1950s house designed w/o A/C and with effectively no insulation. In Tallahassee I lived in a 1970s house designed for A/C. But we didn't have money, so we didn't…

I think you've been here long enough to know that a phrase like "automatically and without exception" is likely a poor interpretation of what the parent poster meant with "standard household activity". I'm damned if I do, damned if I don't. It doesn't matter how I phrase it, people will have a problem with my real point and will have a problem with me giving first-hand testimony from my life. So I tried to avoid that…

Had no idea who you were, hadn't even considered what gender you may be, and I can say that it is your writing style and phrasing that rubs the wrong way. (IMHO) reading your posts came across as if I was being lectured to/talked down to by someone with feelings of superiority.