Building Sciences: Energy Security and Saving the Planet
we dont have an energy crisis. We have a cheap oil crisis. While we are trying to sort out the challenge of finding clean and cheap energy, the building sector will be constructing over-insulated buildings with less robust materials, causing troubles like mold and rot. This months Building Sciences explains how the transportation industrys hybrid vehicles just might save the world, but over insulating may be the downfall of civilization.Units: I-PCitation: ASHRAE Journal, vol. 50, no. 7, July 2008