The Swiss Houses Making Energy Efficiency Go A Long Way

The Swiss Houses Making Energy Efficiency Go A Long Way by swinssinfo.ch Household CO2 emissions in Switzerland have experts talking. Despite its growing population and the amount of space needed per person, emissions still dropped between 2000 and 2013. How? A new apartment block in Brütten, canton Zurich dubbed “The House of the Future” is a Swiss energy efficiency case-in-point – although it goes several steps beyond even the thriftiest homes on the ground today. Believed to be the first energy self-sufficient apartment building in the world, the dwelling produces all its own heat and electricity using the sun’s energy,…