Which Is Worse, Air Leaks or Heat Loss? Neither. It’s Energy Consumption That Matters

Image Credit: Resources for a Sustainable Future There is a strange debate going on at Green Building Advisor, where a writer thinks “home buyers have been “brainwashed” into thinking only about R-values, as energy codes give short shrift to the importance of airtightness.” The debate goes back and forth, but not once to they address the real point: How much energy is being consumed over all. They are preoccupie… Read the full story on TreeHugger

View original post here:

Which Is Worse, Air Leaks or Heat Loss? Neither. It’s Energy Consumption That Matters

Posted by on December 21, 2010. Filed under Lifestyle. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry