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Utility Builds Replica 1930s House to Test Renewables

Submitted by Treehugger 29 weeks 6 days ago.
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UK utility building replica 1930s house to test renewables

We had to do a double take on this one. A UK energy company is building a brand-new house, to 1930s standards, in order to go green. The idea isn’t entirely as daft as it sounds. E.On, one of the largest energy companies in Britain, is teaming up with the University of Nottingham to build a replica 1930s house to test retrofit low carbon technologies. The house will be on campus, and will be lived in by students, and will be used to collect real-life data about the technologies that are utilized:

“"It will be lived in. We want to show the re...


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