Home and building insulation plays a key role in reducing carbon footprints and energy efficiency. By providing a barrier against heat transfer, insulation reduces the use of fossil fuels for heating and cooling. This decrease in energy consumption directly impacts carbon emissions at the point of generation, i.e. the power plants that provide electricity for heating and cooling systems.
Noble Insulation Inc Footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere from a person, company or product. This includes all activities such as driving a car, eating a hamburger, and constructing a house. Generally speaking, the smaller the carbon footprint, the less impact it has on the environment.
Insulation is a natural way to reduce your carbon footprint. It works by slowing down the transfer of heat in the form of conduction, convection and radiation. In essence, it provides a barrier that keeps the hot air inside during winter and the cold air outside in summer. This reduces the need to burn fossil fuels for heating and cooling, which in turn reduces carbon emissions at the point of generation.
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The type of insulation you choose and the thickness can have a bigger impact on overall life cycle carbon emissions, including operational energy efficiency. Thicker insulation requires more embodied carbon than thinner insulation, so balancing operational energy savings and embodied carbon is important.
The embodied carbon of the insulation is a measure of the greenhouse gas emissions from making the insulation material (raw materials extraction, manufacturing energy, transportation to the job site). This figure is often referred to as carbon payback and it represents the number of years it takes for the operational energy savings to offset the embodied carbon. The good news is that embodied carbon is coming down fast with spray foam and rigid board insulations such as XPS. In fact, since January 1st 2021, Environment and Climate Change Canada has banned the use of hydrofluorocarbon blowing agents in these products. This has dramatically reduced the embodied carbon of these insulation types.
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