When completed, it will be one of the first net-zero energy and net-zero water-waste buildings in the country.
The government announced that the city would be zero-carbon, powered entirely by renewable energy, car-free, and produce net-zero waste.
The gap between the concept and the reality of net zero energy buildings seems largely a result of the shortcomings of most net-zero energy strategies.
All this shifting of wealth is a zero-sum game and the net effect on incomes is usually zero, or even negative.
"If you have a sleepover and 15 girls with hairdryers, you're not going to have a net-zero home, " said Nexus Energy Homes' Mr. McIntosh.
Like all net-zero buildings, the Wilson-Olivo house is tightly insulated.
Frederick residents Geordie Wilson and Pilar Olivo, who moved into a net-zero house near the Gurzicks with their three kids in September, say closely watching their energy use has made them more cautious consumers.
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On the green front, all steel-framed Connect:Homes are designed to attain LEED Silver certification out the door, with Gold and Platinum certification and net-zero energy status a possibility depending on additional bells and whistles added at the installation site.
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Apple is currently being priced as a near-zero growth stock at 9x forward earnings, net of cash.
Net of inflation and net of taxes, that's awfully close to zero real after-tax return.
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Any market not dominated by a state-owned enterprise has too many players and overall industry net profits are near zero.
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This will be a big change of habit: according to Morgan Stanley, America's net Treasury-bond purchases, outside those by the finance industry, have been zero since 1992.
Without such intervention net new mortgage lending - gross new home loans minus repayments and redemptions - would fall below zero in 2009 and see only a modest recovery in 2010, he said.
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