ökologische Hypothek
English translation: ecological debt
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| 21:12 Feb 27, 2015 |
| German to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Environment & Ecology / description of a site | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Michael Martin, MA United States Local time: 07:22 | ||||||
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green/energy-efficient mortgage Explanation: "An energy efficient mortgage (EEM) (or "green mortgage") is a loan product that allows borrowers to reduce their utility bill costs by allowing them to finance the cost of incorporating energy-efficient features into a new housing purchase or the refinancing of existing housing." "Energy-efficient" would be the better option because they've already said "green" earlier in the sentence. It sounds like you're having trouble with the whole sentence. I suggest the following: "Energy was embodied in the original construction, but this will not be expended again, as the building has largely been preserved." Embodied energy, sometimes known as grey/gray energy, is defined as follows: "The energy required to produce any goods or services, considered as if that energy was incorporated or 'embodied' in the product itself. The concept can be useful in determining the effectiveness of energy-producing or energy-saving devices, or the "real" replacement cost of a building, and, because energy-inputs usually entail greenhouse gas emissions, in deciding whether a product contributes to or mitigates global warming. One fundamental purpose for measuring this quantity is to compare the amount of energy produced or saved by the product in question to the amount of energy consumed in producing it." In other words, the property already has embodied energy from when it was built, and it won't consume much new energy to convert it. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficient_mortgage Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_energy |
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51 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +8
peer agreement (net): +8ecological debt Explanation: .. and doesn't require running up ecological debt The German is not to be taken literally. This is an expression, not an actual mortgage.. |
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