A house designed "in harmony with the landscape." To reduce heating and cooling needs, prevailing winds and temperatures were taken into account in situating the building. The house also uses two lesser-known environmentally friendly technologies: geothermal heating and wastewater recycling.
Inside a closet, a collection of pipes is thrust deep into the earth, down where the sun don't shine and the temperature is perpetually 67 degrees. Water circulates through this zone and then back up into house pipes to heat or cool the building. The system uses less electricity than conventional heating and cooling installations, but that electricity does come from the local electric grid. The house also has a well and recycles its water. Water that flows out a tub drain is known as "gray water"; water from the toilet is "black water." This home recycles both types via subterranean filtration tanks and uses the resultant cleaner water in the garden. Hint: it's in Crawford Texas.
2007-02-27 10:13:20 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I know - I know.
It is the house of our GREAT President and Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush!
2007-02-27 10:19:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Kudos on chopping off the end of the article. By doing that, you've altered it to fit your argument.
"All in all, the house sounds pretty nice. (For a rich person's vacation home, it's kinda small, and it sure is quiet and remote.) Still, off-grid or not, it's an utter mystery: How can this man, whose administration has gutted environmental protection as though it were a trout, care enough to recycle toilet water in his home? Who knows --"
2007-02-27 10:31:02 · answer #2 · answered by MishMash [I am not one of your fans] 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
President Bush's house is more environmentally sound than liberal loonie and Hollywood loving Mr hypocrite Al Gore's house in Nashville.
2007-02-27 14:44:46 · answer #3 · answered by toughguy2 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think you omitted the closing line of the article from which this came:
"[I]t's an utter mystery: How can this man, whose administration has gutted environmental protection as though it were a trout, care enough to recycle toilet water in his home?"
How indeed?
2007-02-27 10:18:46 · answer #4 · answered by surroundedbyimbeciles 2 · 4⤊ 3⤋
I heard this house was actually heated by the souls and hearts of incinerated Iraqi children.
2007-02-27 10:19:41 · answer #5 · answered by brickity hussein brack 5 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Funny how Republicans do things themselves that Democrats won't do to be environmentally friendly. That system also works in cold places like Michigan.
2007-02-27 10:18:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
gee....lemme think.......President Bush Perhaps?
2007-02-27 10:18:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋