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Re:Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil ... by opencl on Friday July 12, 2019 @04:02PM (#20423970)
The US has insulation requirements, it varies a lot state to state but new housing generally has at least decent-ish insulation. The main issue is that there is a lot of very old housing stock in the US. As of 2015 the median house was 37 years old and 40% were over 45 years old. In the area I live the vast majority of the houses were built in the 40s or 50s, though most people have done some amount of insulation retrofitting.

http://eyeonhousing.org/2015/08/the-aging-housing-stock-2/

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Re:Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil ... by closeparen on Friday July 12, 2019 @10:27PM (#20426129)
Prewar houses in cold climates are insulated just fine. It seems a lot of 1980s and 1990s structures in San Francisco basically cardboard boxes, because with mild weather you get away with it.
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