Seed Eco-Home Eco Features 2022
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- It is a compact starter home - at 1000 square feet of space, compared to the larger 2500 sq ft average size. This means that much less cost all around.
- House comes with a full-off grid 6kW as a standard option
- House comes with aquaponic greenhouse as a standard option
- Shallow Insulated Footer - makes the house an earth contact home, allowing for heat tranfer from soil under the house that stays 60F year round. Also costs 15-20% less. see [1].
- Heat pump - 3x more efficient than typical heaters [2]. furnace. Also used for central cooling in the summer. Saves about $500 in heating per year for the Seed Eco-Home, and cuts carbon emissions 2x [3]
- Induction cooktop - according to one source, about 80% efficient, which is about double the efficiency of gas cooking [4]. Another source says 3x as efficient as gas and 10-15% more efficient than electric cooktops. [5]. Saves about $100/year in cooking costs [6].
- Superfridge - For our refrigerator, we use a highly insulated chest freezer converted to a refrigerator, which is about 10x more efficient than a standard refrigerator. This is a standard option depending on one's needs of energy efficiency or convenience. See more info at Superfridge.