About passive houses and plastic bags and styrofoam fur

So, opening and closing windows, everyone with a [Brettergymnasiumabi] understands that, controlling a system like that, you have to like it.
It can’t be the ultimate wisdom to equip a building with technology that only makes it habitable through that technology. But, I think here not only views but whole attitudes towards life clash. Karsten

Maybe the mistake lies exactly here. With a controlled residential ventilation system, you usually don’t have to adjust anything, even those with a [Brettergymnasiumabi] understand that much better, because they simply don’t have to do anything. And how well manual ventilation works (for [Brettergymnasiasten]) can often be seen in rental apartments that have mold because their occupants are apparently too lazy to ventilate — or don’t have the time for it (due to working). However, it’s completely fine if someone prefers to ventilate manually and can manage it (intellectually and timewise). But the technology of controlled residential ventilation is no more complex than operating a kitchen hood — even Apple fans would manage that (by the way, I like Apple a lot too, but being a fan would be too much).

Regarding the necessity of the technology. Well, if you focus on energy consumption and want to exploit as many energy reservoirs in the house as possible, you won’t get around a certain amount of technology. But it should remain manageable, and I don’t see any trend that you would need a degree to operate controlled residential ventilation or heating. Possibly for the configuration and setting, but there I agree with you. I simply have no desire to spend my free time optimizing the parameters of heating curves or air exchange rates. I’d rather live in or outside the house [emoji4]

I again agree with Nordlys here

Humans are analog animals with analog lungs and it is best to open analog windows for ventilation in the traditional way using a handle operated with their front paws.

Houses are not built for houses, but for their inhabitants. And they have souls that may find it difficult to accept the idea of having their climate "digitally simulated," if I may put it that way. The mind may rightly say that chemically it is perfectly equivalent. But that also applies to astronaut food. For me, proper human living includes being allowed to have the "quirk" of living analog.

And no, even if there is global warming: I am not to blame for it. And sticking transformed petrochemical waste around my house is not the solution either.

As I said, the "everything was better in the past" faction

Humans are analog animals with analog lungs and preferably open analog windows for ventilation traditionally using a handle mechanism with their front paws.

Houses are not built for houses, but for their inhabitants. And they have souls, which may have difficulty accepting the idea of having their climate "digitally simulated," if I may put it that way. The mind may rightly say that chemically it is perfectly equivalent.

Nothing is being simulated here, we are simply automating manual ventilation, nothing more, nothing less. Comparable to hiring someone to manually ventilate by opening windows every 2 hours. The air coming in is the same, just not through the window, but through the supply air vent.

Chemically nothing is being done at all; on the contrary, particulate matter is filtered out via mechanical filters – which can be a positive factor for asthma sufferers/allergy sufferers.

But everyone can do as they please; no one is forced to install a controlled residential ventilation system. For me, the K rather stands for comfort, since we have neither the time (both working) nor the desire to walk through the house's basement, ground floor, and upper floor every 2 hours to get fresh air, remove moisture, and avoid mold.

Despite controlled residential ventilation, the windows can be opened at any time. The compulsion is simply missing.

We have gotten a bit off track. Alex said in essence, it is an EU decision that soon there will only be such Passive Houses. I responded, no, please not that. Styrofoam fur, plastic bag, sealed windows....and there we are with the beloved Controlled Residential Ventilation....

I am a confessed open window sleeper. Even in winter.

One cannot simply discuss this topic when one side of the discussion talks about plastic bags and the like. The outcome is already determined in advance, as it involves a heavy bias that will not be resolved.