Electricity consumption at home, what is your consumption?

Well, it does make me a bit sad how some people handle energy. But well, certainly only the tip of the iceberg. All the concrete that went into the project probably makes the electricity consumption look pale again. Hopefully at least a large photovoltaic system.

What superficial nonsense. Regarding the idea from with the mirror.... I'll buy a round of mirrors. Row by row we fall through the grid.... EVERYONE (including me)! Although I assert quite certainly and without knowing you, that my ecological footprint compared to yours is more like a child's footprint..... and yet still too big. We've had this discussion many times and suddenly these missionary hobby environmentalists found some terrible things..... wham.... discussion over :D

- Hot water 48 degrees, hysteresis 7K

does that mean your heat pump heats the hot water up to 55 degrees?

Never claimed that my/our ecological footprint is small. I know that too. Maybe over generations, since there are no more generations with us. Our realized dream house is clearly a waste of resources. Nevertheless, many parts were designed to be “efficient.” I also eat meat and sometimes fly on vacation.

So you can definitely say that the power consumption is high.

Ok, then we basically agree after all. :-)

Since the rest has little to do with the topic, but I started it, I'll put the rest in here:

> When does your house construction start now?
Hopefully soon, but why does the timing matter?

> How big will it be?
Planned with about 40m² per person, and you? ;-)

> How much % of the plot will be built over?
Somewhere around 15%.
I would have expected that generally less floor space is better, but why does a percentage of your own plot matter?

> Possibly space wastage?
Maybe!

> Wouldn't a single-family house still fit there?
According to the development plan, everything is full, but would that be a pro or con for the environment?

> You plan to have children. That creates a significantly higher resource consumption.
If my children are average, my kid and I still only need 1/5 of what you do, right?

> Notice something?
Yes, we all consume resources.
But just because you have 10 times as much money, do you also have to consume 10 times as many resources?
You could also afford environmental protection. :-)

But please don't take it personally, the corona boredom apparently makes me currently occupy myself with things that should actually not matter to me, or at least are too political for a power consumption thread. ;-)

What superficial nonsense.

My statement referred to the indifference.
Calling a house power consumption that is 10 times higher than average "low" apparently triggered me briefly.
Maybe I simply misunderstood it and it was not meant as "we are very economical" but rather as "we expected it to be even worse"?

But on the topic of Spiegel:
Sure, here in the house building forum we all burden the environment, so I'll soon belong to that group too.

I never claimed that my/our ecological footprint is small. I know that too. Maybe over generations, since there won’t be any more for us. Our realized dream house is clearly a waste of resources. Nevertheless, many parts were designed to be "economical." I also eat meat and occasionally fly on vacation.

Any explanation probably won’t be understood, I think, and it’s also not necessary. Beautiful architecture is just as justified as art, or should I complain that all these amateur painters waste millions of liters of paint? Such a discussion is pointless; just being on the internet alone is already ecological nonsense, not to mention the components in the devices... oh, what am I talking about. You built a great house and created interesting and lasting architecture. When many a petty "eco-suburban house" has already turned to dust, yours won’t. I don’t know you, but I think the project is great, I’d like to see more like it. I lived in a country without beautiful architecture and I missed it eventually, even though I wasn’t really aware of it before. It's good that there are people who spend their money on that and not on other nonsense. I have encountered real ecologists where people were poor. They often lived off Nestlé because that’s how they were raised or because there was nothing else to buy, and sometimes buried plastic in the garden, but their entire way of life was ecological because they simply had no other choice. That applies to exactly zero percent of the forum visitors, whether one wants to accept it or not. To some extent, the saying applies here: "If everyone thinks of themselves, everyone is taken care of." Instead of acting like a know-it-all, everyone should look at their own life and that of their relatives with some humility. There is always plenty to sweep up, more than enough!

that means your heat pump heats the hot water up to 55 degrees?

No, for hot water it is only -7K, not like with RLT target of +-2K