Localized Energy
Localized Energy
Localized energy revolves around the idea of using renewable energy to power the mechanical systems in your building’s enclosure. At Adapt we aim to create the infrastructure for your home that lends itself towards the use of solar, wind, geothermal and rapidly renewable bio-based fuels. We find these to be a good investments with realistic paybacks that leave out the need for the ill effects such as market fluctuations in conventional petroleum based economies and environmental setbacks.
Building Enclosure
Investing in a tight and well insulated building enclosure is the first step we can take to create localized energy in our homes. Reducing the amount of energy that our existing homes use is the same as creating energy to compensate for a building’s poor performance. At Adapt, we design and implement careful strategies to overcome a building’s thermal deficiency, while creating a healthy and comfortable indoor living environment.
Healthy Indoor Air
Across the board conservation efforts require subsequent management, be it in a forest, a city or in this case a home. When we tighten a home to cutting edge standards, we eliminate virtually all of the “gaps and cracks” in a homes building enclosure where it once “breathed” through. This breathing of an inefficient building enclosure accounts for about 30% of all wasted energy that our homes utilize. In order to prevent the growth of mold and ensure fresh air circulation, ventilation systems become necessary. At Adapt we design efficient mechanical ventilation systems to ensure healthy indoor air quality and energy efficiency.
Alternative Energies
In utilizing the sun and wind for heating and electricity and or geothermal mechanical systems, we can ensure that your home will supply its own energy needs. With an uncertain energy market and future, energy independence offers peace of mind to the consumer. As an investment, alternative energies provide years of clean, accessible and free energy.
Bio-Based Energy and Alternative Mechanical Systems
We support the use of bio-mass energy resources which enhance local based energy and economies. Bio-based energy and alternative mechanical systems work in nature’s closed looped circuit. As a tree grows it sequesters carbon from the atmosphere and when we efficiently burn the tree as fuel the output of carbon is within the natural cycle. In order to accomplish this, we need to sustainably grow and harvest these products. We can help support healthy forests by removing forest fuels that contribute to fires while ulilizing this wood to heat our homes. Likewise we can support this natural cycle creating rooftop vegetation, aiding a building’s insulation and diminishing urban heat sinking. Adapt supports the cutting edge technologies and infrastructures that encourages Alternative Mechanical Systems, technologies, and innovations.
Local Support
Adapt supports initiatives to bring resources and funding to people who want to create and support alternative localized energy in their homes and communities. We believe in bio-based renewable technology and its subsequent reduction in fossil fuel consumption. We assist the homeowner in finding tax incentives and write-offs as well as grants and rebates to lower the cost of renovation.
