Rotating home owners boast of 360-degree views and energy benefits

Comments

• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Mr Everingham said being able to position the house to capture or avoid the sun or breeze saved an estimated 50 per cent in energy costs.

  They keep saying that, but logically it doesn’t make sense…

  With energy efficient windows, you’re not getting much free heat/cooling even if you were constantly rotating for optimal position.

  And with the $350k price tag, even with 50% savings you’d have to reach 350k paid just to break even.

  This is a rich person’s waste of money and they’re back rationalizing why the waste of resources is worth it.

  source

  • ozeng@aus.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    @givesomefucks @zero_gravitas my BS meter is off the charts too.

    Extra cost is $150k. If you save 20kWh per day of energy (which is A LOT) at the current market rate of around 35c/kWh it’ll take you 58 years to recoup the extra build cost.

    source

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Someone who actually did it recently:

      “In all, to rotate this house [cost] roughly $350,000 extra on top of the land and the house itself.”

      The guy who’s 26 year old plans were used:

      Mr Everingham estimated his design would cost approximately $150,000 on top of a normal house build.

      This is a case of an elderly person drastically underestimating inflation of housing construction…

      It costs 350k

      source
  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    True, though if you have the money to spend on expensive superfluities, building something novel and cool is arguably a better use of it than just spending it on luxury goods.

    source

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      building something novel and cool is arguably a better use of it than just spending it on luxury goods.

      Actually the opposite.

      Taking up contractors time on this stuff means less making affordable housing which makes housing less affordable for everyone else.

      In general.its happening to our entire economies. Only the wealthiest can afford things, so man hours and resources go into a small amount of luxury products rather than what the masses need.

      Raising the prices at all.price points.

      source
• Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They didn’t even explain which method of services connection they went for. Affixed portion of house in middle or the fancy coupling method?

  From an energy use perspective I’m certain that 350k would have been far better spent on passivhous certification than this.

  source