Comments about ‘No furnace required: Energy-efficient passive houses' gaining steam’

let's have more of these houses already!

(in this story I see the true value of high taxes)

This is not that hard. We are tightening up our home to conserve energy. We added solar thermal this winter with a backup on-deamd 97% effecient waterheater. We got rid of our furnace and replaced it with a fancoil for the solar that exchages our inside air with outside air through a heat-exchanger. We are far from being the first in Utah to do this but may be the first in Eagle Mountain. I have yet to exchange the air conditioning with geothermal (not heat pump system) cooling. This is not cheap but is the right thing to do and I like not having to depend entirely on other sources for my energy.
This is not rocket science and is being done in the state.
BTW: I no longer have to breath old dry air as one does with a traditional furnace.