Saturday, June 18, 2011

Want to reduce your heating, cooling bills by 90 percent?

CLEVELAND — Everyone needs a home, but not every home, it seems, needs a furnace — even in Cleveland.

A house built for a new museum exhibit shows how walls more than a foot thick, big triple-pane windows, doors like bank vaults and clever engineering can cut heating and cooling costs — and pollution — by 90 percent. The house keeps a comfortable temperature year-round. No need for heavy sweaters, no drafts, no noise.

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