Topic: Zero emissions homes within reach

Zero emissions homes within reach 

Governments will do as little as possible, whilst pandering to big business interests. The current NZ National govt case in point.

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Hello anon,
I was highly amused to read this latest ‘report’ and pick out the ‘rubbish’ claim as follows:

So Australia had a warm winter last year – so what, it will be colder next year, or the year after and does not ‘prove’ we have any global warming.

Just what is the definition of an ‘emissions free’ house, the occupants don’t eat beans?

Define the utterly stupid statement: “a climate free home”. I await your answer.

The authors cannot tell the difference between a polluting gas and CO2 and think they are the same – they are scientifically NOT.

The authors think reducing CO2 makes us energy efficient – exactly how?

They claim the building Standards must change to take into effect the ‘carbon’ content of every building component – a shocking expensive exercise in futile ’navel gazing’.

And “reduce the household ‘carbon’ content”?
Easy - just remove all the occupants who are composed of 18.5% carbon and who continuously breathe out carbon dioxide.
Hey! why not euthanize the population or more beneficially, the author’s of this report: that will solve their imagined ‘problem’!

The only statement of any merit,
“advocates for a 40 per cent water savings target to be applied to new homes to reduce our dependence on increasingly unreliable water supplies.”

This acknowledges the Australians have made a proper botch up of the Murray Darling catchment, river, aquifers and their water pipe line supplies.

Rex

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Here is a quote "The Rudd Government has announced new support for dairy farmers in the Murray-Darling Basin to help them deal with the effects of falling milk prices, the recent heat wave and drought."

There are some real dumb idiots out there that expect to run water hogging dairy units in areas subject to a history of drought. NZ South Island dairy case in point, 1000 liters water used to create 1L of milk. This is not a long term business and should not be allowed to fail.

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oops should be allowed to fail.

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Yes, another "report" full of artificial new meaning ness word creations like "climate-safe", "climate-proof", "emission-free", "zero-emission", ....
And of course the fact that we need more reports, more debates, more strategies, more standards and more importantly more campaigns.
People, we know all that stuff at least since the 70's when the minority of people talking and writing about it were considered to be moonshine-dancing, tree-hugging, green idiots.
We must have had millions of reports and campaigns since and our energy use and CO2 emissions went up since.
Alexander Greig once called it "death by power point".
It's great that BRANZ spend some million dollars on the HEAP report so we now know where our energy goes to. Maybe we should have invested the money rather in some solar hot water systems to reduce our national energy use rather than tracking it.
I am getting a bit tired of meaningless reports everybody know about anyway.

Regards,
Ingo

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Well politicians and govt bodies just love think tanks and reports, makes them look like they are doing something, when in reality they haven't a clue and don't want to make a meaningful decision that would rock their public opinion.

Mike

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It will remain theory and more empty reports will come until

-Those who currently control the building industry are long gone and the filth is cleaned upbvvvvvvvvvvvcxzdsf
-Once most of the current builders and architects are retired or changed their career.
-The builders and architects are trained properly
-BRANZ is a remote memory.
-The aluminium connection lost their overwelming power
-we have a 21st century building code applied by all councils the same way