This Maine home can stay 70 degrees without a furnace, even when it`s freezing outside


This Maine home can stay 70 degrees without a furnace, even when it`s freezing outside


What if you could design a house that on a cold day in January would stay at 70 degrees inside — without running the furnace? Or even having a furnace?

It`s already being done.

In fact, what`s known as the Passivhaus concept came to the United States in 2006, and is being used to construct buildings throughout the U.S.

Maine Public recently visited a passive house in the town of Hope to find out how it works — and what it costs.

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