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Can straw bale techniques really make a difference to the environment?

April 26, 2017bale difference Environment straw techniques

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Can straw bale techniques really make a difference to the environment?

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The embodied energy for the conventional frame house was 509,000 KBtus. The embodied energy for the low impact straw bale house is 41,000 KBtus, or about one twelfth that of the frame house. * *Investigation of Environmental Impacts, Straw Bale Construction, by Ann V. Edminster, University of California , Berkeley , 1995.