Submitted by rentalfloss t3_zsw98f in worldnews
zenzukai t1_j1c2n9r wrote
Reply to comment by Uncle_Rabbit in Canada moves to mandate electric vehicle sales starting in 2026 by rentalfloss
The vast majority of energy use globally is for travel, food, heating and electricity. We can cut down on travel, even food and electricity, hard to do for heating.
The most significant things you can do is stop eating meat, stop going on vacations, bike to work. Everything else is trivial.
pdp10 t1_j1ilbpf wrote
> hard to do for heating.
Not fundamentally difficult. It's called "insulation". Difficult to economically retrofit in many cases, however. That 1937 farmhouse with minimal insulation and originally fitted with a coal-burning boiler, will be hard to adapt into a highly insulated, tight-envelope modern house with a heat pump.
WikiSummarizerBot t1_j1ildcb wrote
>"Passive house" (German: Passivhaus) is a voluntary standard for energy efficiency in a building, which reduces the building's ecological footprint. It results in ultra-low energy buildings that require little energy for space heating or cooling. A similar standard, MINERGIE-P, is used in Switzerland. The standard is not confined to residential properties; several office buildings, schools, kindergartens and a supermarket have also been constructed to the standard.
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