Green Options » heat loss apartment pool http://greenoptions.com/tag/heat-loss-apartment-pool Posts tagged 'heat loss apartment pool' Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:36:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Consider A New Measure of Carbon Footprint http://greenbuildingelements.com/2009/03/06/consider-a-new-measure-of-carbon-footprint/ http://greenbuildingelements.com/2009/03/06/consider-a-new-measure-of-carbon-footprint/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:36:03 +0000 Susan Kraemer http://greenbuildingelements.com/2009/03/06/consider-a-new-measure-of-carbon-footprint/

We are by now accustomed to measuring carbon emissions in terms of “taking X many cars off the road”.

We know cars are responsible for carbon emissions. So we are used to sneering at hoggy cars that wastefully emit so many tons of carbon per year:

(In fact, measuring carbon footprints in these terms is by now such a cliche that the measure:  carsofftheroad will probably wind up as a regular metric that kids learn in school, just like feet and pounds are now: Phrases like I took 15 carsofftheroad last week installing 3 kw of new solar will be as readily understood as I lost 15 pounds last week running the marathon.)

But this week; doing a pre solar (thermal) efficiency analysis for an apartment complex - I noticed a surprisingly huge source of wasted energy that has thus far escaped notice and ridicule (well, mine, anyway) and that is: swimming pools.

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