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Podcast: This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro
Episode: Cool Buildings, Hot Planet
Description: Everybody knows that insualting your home is a good way to cut down on heating and cooling costs, but what if you could turn your entire home into a giant insulated cooler?
Well, it turns out you can, and some people in Europe are doing just that; building new walls several feet outside their existing homes, cladding them with a layer of insulated foam, and then extending their roof out over the new, expanded, and much more energy efficient structure.
Now that's what you call an extreme home retrofit! But it is also the wave of the future, as are...