Enertia Homes - Fuel: Who Needs It?

When subdivisions go up in the small town I'm from, I wonder who is thinking forward and really spending the little extra amount to make their home sustainable for years to come. I haven't been seeing a lot of change in homes, despite the obvious need for it, but I have seen plenty of the same developments. Cookie cutter houses placed on cookie cutter roads in cookie cutter subdivisions with cookie cutter names like "Cookie Cutter Prairie." I would rather see a subdivision titled "Enertia Fields."

These homes provide heating and cooling by turning the entire home into one big heat pump and "using the natural energy of rising solar-heated air to extract and enhance the pool of geothermal energy just beneath the building's floor. Simple, foolproof, no CFC's, no electric bill."

Who even needs fuel???

After constructing six test homes over in Maryland somewhere and checking out how those doggone Scandinavian people have been living, the people over at Enertia developed "the Enertia® Building System, [where] solid Energy-Engineered(tm) wood walls replace siding, framing, insulation, and paneling. An air flow and access channel, or Envelope, runs around the building, just inside the walls - creating a miniature biosphere. Here solar heated air circulates, pumping and boosting geothermal energy from beneath the house, storing it in the massive wood walls. Thermal inertia causes the house to "float" between the cycles of night and day, and even between the seasons."

Plus these homes are gorgeous! Check it out!