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1. It can be notoriously difficult to get efficiency measures for alternative-housing systems.

2. In the Southern USA, I don't have huge use for heat, but I can certainly commiserate with the opposite: Paying out the nose for A/C to keep from suffocating. 
Let's find out what % that 1700 is out of the total households of Germany, Switzerland, & Austria: [Wiki Households by Nation](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_countries_by_number_of_households)
>Germany | 40,076,000
Switzerland | 3,362,073
Austria | 3,566,489
Total | 47,004,562
1700/47004562 = | 3.616670228732266e-5 (...A REALLY small %)
BUT, according to the article, 60% of heat demand is reduced in those 1700 households.

3. Ahh, the wonders of government stipulations. It's a good thing they wrote down that all buildings have to be "nearly zero-energy" from 2021 on. Now that it's on-paper, the humans will surely do it! By the way, I wonder just how close to 0 "nearly zero" is.
Relevant Google Images Search: [0=Zero?](https://www.google.com/search?q=eu+near+zero+energy+building&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=993&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAgQ_AUoA2oVChMIlsPO_rqQxwIVURmSCh3YsgK0#imgrc=_ "How close to 0") //INSERT IMG FROM BRADLEYSCI FOLDER ONEDRIVE
4. ONLY 9 Houses Monitored/Measured!? Time for even more math...
9/1700= | 0.005294117647058824 or 0.529% (LESS than 1% of the homes)
30 Homes would have provided a recording of 1.764% of the homes, and would at least fall within Minimum Recommended guidelines for most Scientific/Statistical analysis. 
Found out that "Heiz" is a short-form of "Heizen," which refers to heat/hotness. [Heiz](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heiz "heiz=hot")
Researchers get a little pat-on-the-back & got to work with buddies at a technical school.
I wonder what Mr. Stryi-Hipp's comment "over multiple heating periods" means: Is that several days? Weeks? Months? (I'm guessing days based on what follows...)
€1,500,000 in funding from a super-long-government-bureacracy-name-that-just-keeps-going-and-going-and-going, because... Federal Government YAY! /sarc

5. Oh, ok they built a model/simulation! They must have run a bunch of tests with a light-source to simulate the sun & see how to optimize the heating from... Wait... Reduce the tank? Increase the solar panels? Increase the most expensive part? Like, the part that the article JUST stated was "expensive"? I guess it WOULD be good for grant money, home price inflation, and keeping those precious-mineral-miners in their miserable places.
**Palm-->Forehead*
Hopefully they'll get cheap ones from ebay? [ebay solar collector](http://www.ebay.com/bhp/solar-collector "ebay solar collector"

6. Wow! I believe we may just have to hand out a physics award. Heat radiates outward? Astounding! 
AND, you can direct it away from the house using a window?? Again, I gasp at the innovation.

1. It can be notoriously difficult to get efficiency measures for alternative-housing systems.

2. In the Southern USA, I don't have huge use for heat, but I can certainly commiserate with the opposite: Paying out the nose for A/C to keep from suffocating.

Let's find out what % that 1700 is out of the total households of Germany, Switzerland, & Austria: Wiki Households by Nation

| Nation | Households |
| Germany | 40,076,000 |
| Switzerland | 3,362,073 |
| Austria | 3,566,489 |
| Total | 47,004,562 |

BUT, according to the article, 60% of heat demand is reduced in those 1700 households.

| 1700/47004562 | 3.616670228732266e-5 (...A REALLY small % of households researched) |

3. Ahh, the wonders of government stipulations. It's a good thing they wrote down that all buildings have to be "nearly zero-energy" from 2021 on. Now that it's on-paper, the humans will surely do it! By the way, I wonder just how close to 0 "nearly zero" is.
Relevant Google Images Search: 0=Zero Energy?

4. ONLY 9 Houses Monitored/Measured!? Time for even more math... 9/1700= | 0.005294117647058824 or 0.529% (LESS than 1% of the homes) 30 Homes would have provided a recording of 1.764% of the homes, and would at least fall within Minimum Recommended guidelines for most Scientific/Statistical analysis.

They've named the research the "Heizsolar" Project. "Heiz" is a short-form of "Heizen," which refers to heat/hotness Wiki 'Heiz'. I'll bet you get the "solar" part. What I don't get is if it seems repetitive in native Dutch/German.

Researchers get a little pat-on-the-back & got to work with buddies at a technical school.

I wonder what Mr. Stryi-Hipp's comment "over multiple heating periods" means: Is that several days? Weeks? Months? (I'm guessing days based on what follows...)
€1,500,000 in funding from a super-long-government-bureacracy-name-that-just-keeps-going-and-going-and-going, because... Federal Government YAY! /sarc

5. Oh, ok they built a model/simulation! They must have run a bunch of tests with a light-source to simulate the sun & see how to optimize the heating from... Wait... Reduce the tank? Increase the solar panels?
Increase the most expensive part? Like, the part that the article JUST stated was "expensive"? I guess it WOULD be good for grant money, home price inflation, and keeping those precious-mineral-miners in their miserable places.
*Palm-->Forehead
Hopefully they'll get cheap ones from ebay? ebay solar collector

6. Wow! I believe we may just have to hand out a Physics award. Heat radiates outward? Astounding! AND, you can direct it away from the house using a window?? Again, I gasp at the innovation.
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I'm kind-of sorry for the snarky tone of this piece, but seriously... I got into this article thinking it would be inspiring, full of ideas to optimize housing. Instead, it turned out to be a weak attempt at research and even weaker resulting suggestions. The "Benefit Tomorrow" is to NOT be tricked by lame research. If you would like to see some revolutionary housing & building, I encourage you to take a look at these following links:

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