Ecohouse
Ecohouse near Faaker See, Austria.
An ecohouse (or eco home) is an environmentally low-impact home designed and built using materials and technology that reduces its carbon footprint and lowers its energy needs.
This includes:
- Glass that has two or three layers with gas in between to prevent heat loss
- Solar panels
- Geothermal heating and growing plants on the roof to regulate temperature, quieten the house, and to produce oxygen
- A wind turbine for when there is wind, and a battery if not
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