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coryrclast Saturday at 9:45 PM0 repliesview on HN

And this also leaves out all the heating power still consumed directly from fossil fuels. The gap is much larger.

This doesn't have have to be by switching consumption; using less is possible: Passivhaus is from Germany, after all. However, you can't do that and keep all your historical protections on buildings and layers-upon-layers of red tape on renovations.