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Tue 05 May 2009Wool and solar panels help to cut fuel costs
RAIN WATER is collected for use by the residents and the walls are insulated with wool. While these may sound like practices of the past, in reality these features are part of the apartment complex of the future.
Minister for the Environment John Gormley and Lord Mayor of Dublin Eibhlin Byrne were on hand yesterday at the opening of a new housing scheme designed with energy conservation in mind.
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