Boulder County commissioners to weigh net-zero standard for large new homes

[fatboy]

Boulder County commissioners to weigh net-zero standard for large newhomes

by BizWest Staffon October 15, 2015



The Boulder County commissionerson Tuesday will weigh whether to require that all new homes larger than 5,000square feet meet net-zero energy standards.



The Daily Camera reports that the county Board of Review this week gave theirunanimous recommendation to the commissioners that they update building codeswith the Higher standard.



Net-zero buildings create atleast as much energy on-site as they use.

 

[Sifu]

Power company will love that!

 

[Keystone]

Vote it down and vote them out!

 

[conarb]

They're still playing the New World Order game when at a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism?"This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution," she said.Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she added: "This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history."

Read More At Investor's Business Daily:

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/021015-738779-climate-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism.htm#ixzz3o1ZSxl5p Even the U.N. is calling it only a way to destroy capitalism, and the Devil himself, Rajendra Pachauri (the guy who got the Nobel Peace Prize along with Al the Idiot Gore has been forced to resign:

The only sad thing about the resignation of Dr Rajendra Pachauri as chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is that it was brought about by allegations of sexual harassment by a young female employee of his Delhi research body, The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri), from which he has also now stepped down. Laughably described as “the world’s leading climate scientist”, this absurd figure, with his PhD in the economics of railway engineering from an obscure US university, should never have been given the job in the first place. As a vegetarian, he jetted round the world exhorting everyone else to save the planet by giving up air travel and meat. Thanks to the prestige of his position, his institute was showered with millions of dollars by international institutions, from global banks to Yale University (not to mention £10 million from British taxpayers). But above all, Pachauri, with the looks of a pantomime villain, should have resigned when, in 2010, the super-scary IPCC report over which he presided in 2007 was shown – not least by this column and by the assiduous researchers of my co‑author, Richard North – to have been full of wildly unscientific errors emanating from green activists. ¹

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[tmurray]

As an energy advisor, I would generally recommend against legislators requiring net zero. It's more important to mandate insulation, fenestration and airtightness. All of these requirements must be practical based on the local climate and actually be buildable for local contractor buy in (common sense helps too). Power plants, large scale photovoltaic arrays and wind farms produce power way cheaper than site generated can hope to at this point once you take into account maintenance and system lifespan. If someone wants to use these systems on their own house for the social statement, that's fine, but it should not be mandatory.

 

[Min&Max]

Colorado is giving California a run for the money in the crazy category.

 

[fatboy]

The Peoples Republic of Boulder maybe......although they are recruiting some other front range cities........