Swedish solar houses producing as much energy as they use. And a striking graphic showing carbon output per capita, by nation
Above are slides from Dwell.com’s article - see extra below:
A set of affordable homes for growing families just popped up in Örebro, Sweden—and they utilize passive building principles and photovoltaic panels to generate as much energy as they use each year. Stockholm-based Street Monkey Architects designed the zero-energy homes to be well insulated and nearly airtight, with ventilation systems that retain as much heat as possible.
The homes are almost completely powered by rooftop solar panels, and on-site batteries store unused energy that can be sold back to the grid. Additionally, the buildings’ energy consumption is measured on an ongoing basis to adjust for power needs.
Each two-story, 1,600-square-foot structure is composed of six factory-built modules that arrived on-site with finished interiors. Once erected, the facades were connected together to smooth over transitional moments between the homes. Four houses face east-west, while six have a north-south orientation—and all of the roofs are topped with solar panels angled toward the path of the sun.
And here’s a striking graphic (made by Ville Seppala), showing very clearly (based on 2018 stats from Global Carbon Project and the World Bank) our carbon emissions per head, as measured country by country - with the worst first.
It is interesting to see how relatively well the UK is performing, compared with some obvious (and ostentatiously progressive) nations…
